Dan Goldhaber
@cedr.bsky.social
Who am I? I wonder sometimes and then remind myself here, http://caldercenter.org & here, http://cedr.us. Views are usually mine, & are not necessarily reflective of anything.
A couple of quick thoughts: 1) not surprisingly, early test performance matters for predicting high school outcomes; an important explanation for differences in high school subgroup outcomes is the change in test scores as students progress through school (see Figure 1).
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A couple of quick thoughts: 1) not surprisingly, early test performance matters for predicting high school outcomes; an important explanation for differences in high school subgroup outcomes is the change in test scores as students progress through school (see Figure 1).
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Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
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Creating Coherence: Does Instructional Alignment Affect the Impact of Tutoring? (spoiler: yes!)
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1332
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Creating Coherence: Does Instructional Alignment Affect the Impact of Tutoring?
This study examines the impact of using instructionally aligned literacy tutoring with students in kindergarten through third grade under a Response to Intervention framework. We conducted a randomize...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Creating Coherence: Does Instructional Alignment Affect the Impact of Tutoring? (spoiler: yes!)
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1332
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1332
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Hi folks. My round up of views here: schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
The logic behind low teacher salaries
SCHOOLED | Friday, 11/7/25
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November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Hi folks. My round up of views here: schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
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New: I spoke with MagicSchool's Adeel Khan about the AI in schools.
–Khan says AI can draft IEPs.
-He says that schools should empower students with information to make their "own choices" about AI.
–He responds to math errors I ran into in the platform.
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–Khan says AI can draft IEPs.
-He says that schools should empower students with information to make their "own choices" about AI.
–He responds to math errors I ran into in the platform.
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MagicSchool’s founder on the potential and perils of AI
Adeel Khan says special education teachers can do their jobs better if they use AI to draft IEPs. And he responds to concerns that AI can’t be a math tutor and is used as a shortcut for students.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
New: I spoke with MagicSchool's Adeel Khan about the AI in schools.
–Khan says AI can draft IEPs.
-He says that schools should empower students with information to make their "own choices" about AI.
–He responds to math errors I ran into in the platform.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/magicschoo...
–Khan says AI can draft IEPs.
-He says that schools should empower students with information to make their "own choices" about AI.
–He responds to math errors I ran into in the platform.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/magicschoo...
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🌟SPARC Center researchers are presenting at @ted-cec.bsky.social next week. Check out this thread for their sessions:
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🌟SPARC Center researchers are presenting at @ted-cec.bsky.social next week. Check out this thread for their sessions:
I know I have a couple of the coveted Saturday slots!
Heading to Seattle for #2025APPAM next week? Be sure to check out presentations from CALDER experts @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @brbackes.bsky.social, & @cedr.bsky.social. Click here to learn more about the conference: www.appam.org/conference-e...
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I know I have a couple of the coveted Saturday slots!
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🚨There is a lot of policy movement to expand career & technical Ed but little evidence of what to expect from such expansion. Our WP provides evidence from MA on take up & ➕impacts in the first 5 yrs after HS. #cte
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @yerinyoon.bsky.social and @doughesm.bsky.social show that in Massachusetts, CTE expansion increased participation by 11.5% and improved early employment for Black or Hispanic students and earnings for male students.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1312
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1312
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🚨There is a lot of policy movement to expand career & technical Ed but little evidence of what to expect from such expansion. Our WP provides evidence from MA on take up & ➕impacts in the first 5 yrs after HS. #cte
Love this discussion (and report) on high-achieving low-income students and how to help them. I totally agree that you need to look early in the pipeline and try to make sure they don't fall off of their trajectories before college.
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The leaky college pipeline for high-achieving, low-income students | Episode 993 of The Education Gadfly Show
This week, we’re joined by Ohio State’s Stéphane Lavertu, author of Fordham’s new study, The Leaky Pipeline: Assessing the college outcomes of Ohio’s high-achieving low-income students.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Love this discussion (and report) on high-achieving low-income students and how to help them. I totally agree that you need to look early in the pipeline and try to make sure they don't fall off of their trajectories before college.
fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
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What will AI actually mean for schools over the next several years? Here are my theories:
–The student cheating problem won't go away.
–AI will increasingly become a ubiquitous teaching assistant.
–AI will *not* be a super-tutor.
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–The student cheating problem won't go away.
–AI will increasingly become a ubiquitous teaching assistant.
–AI will *not* be a super-tutor.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/3-ways-ai-...
3 ways AI will (and won’t) change schools
The cheating problem isn’t going away. More teachers will use AI as an assistant. But AI won't be a supertutor.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What will AI actually mean for schools over the next several years? Here are my theories:
–The student cheating problem won't go away.
–AI will increasingly become a ubiquitous teaching assistant.
–AI will *not* be a super-tutor.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/3-ways-ai-...
–The student cheating problem won't go away.
–AI will increasingly become a ubiquitous teaching assistant.
–AI will *not* be a super-tutor.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/3-ways-ai-...
Yes, but the structure of that investment matters. While raising teacher salaries across the board might increase teacher quality some, it's likely an investment that is a mile wide and inch deep. I'd invest in the pain points in the labor market, i.e., in some subjects and hard to staff schools. +👇
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Yes, but the structure of that investment matters. While raising teacher salaries across the board might increase teacher quality some, it's likely an investment that is a mile wide and inch deep. I'd invest in the pain points in the labor market, i.e., in some subjects and hard to staff schools. +👇
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"The model shows that both parental investments and latent genetic risk jointly shape children’s cognitive and mental health development, underscoring the importance of modeling the dynamic interplay between genes and environments in the formation of human capital." www.nber.org/papers/w34427
Modeling and Measuring the Genetic Determinants of Child Development
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November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"The model shows that both parental investments and latent genetic risk jointly shape children’s cognitive and mental health development, underscoring the importance of modeling the dynamic interplay between genes and environments in the formation of human capital." www.nber.org/papers/w34427
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The Financial Consequences of Being Denied Benefit Access www.nber.org/papers/w34434
"households screened out of SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer tangible downstream economic consequences...process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."
"households screened out of SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer tangible downstream economic consequences...process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."
The Financial Consequences of Being Denied Benefit Access
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Financial Consequences of Being Denied Benefit Access www.nber.org/papers/w34434
"households screened out of SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer tangible downstream economic consequences...process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."
"households screened out of SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer tangible downstream economic consequences...process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."
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Are you an economist looking for a pre-doc? Are you interested in youth crime and policy? Then come work with us! We're hiring at @cep-lse.bsky.social to come and work with Rui Costa, Matteo Sandi and myself on a joint project. Applications now open: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Research Assistant - Youth Criminal Justice
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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ICYMI! Check out the first cross-state analysis of the characteristics of the special education teacher workforce, including ethnoracial diversity, distribution across schools, and attrition rates.
📢 NEW RESEARCH ALERT! The SPARC Center is excited to share THREE new resources with our findings from our first year of research on the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce.
Explore the resources in this thread, or visit our website to learn more: sparccenter.org
Explore the resources in this thread, or visit our website to learn more: sparccenter.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ICYMI! Check out the first cross-state analysis of the characteristics of the special education teacher workforce, including ethnoracial diversity, distribution across schools, and attrition rates.
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How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
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New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
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November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
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New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
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"it reframes the teacher shortage not only as a question of supply, but also as an issue of status and opportunity, raising important questions about how to recruit, support, and elevate teaching to make it both accessible and appealing to the next generation."
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Who Wants to Be a Teacher in America?
This study shows the teacher pipeline through the same lens as other professions, and the contrasts are stark. Unlike nursing or social work, teaching struggles to attract students of color. Unlike la...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"it reframes the teacher shortage not only as a question of supply, but also as an issue of status and opportunity, raising important questions about how to recruit, support, and elevate teaching to make it both accessible and appealing to the next generation."
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"If I had one piece of advice for parents, it would be that they should act quickly if they spot any red flags about their child’s reading progress."
Good advice!
Aldeman On Education
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Good advice!
Aldeman On Education
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Aldeman On Education | Chad Aldeman | Substack
Chad Aldeman writes about school finance, teacher labor markets, and school quality. Click to read Aldeman On Education, by Chad Aldeman, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"If I had one piece of advice for parents, it would be that they should act quickly if they spot any red flags about their child’s reading progress."
Good advice!
Aldeman On Education
www.chadaldeman.com?utm_source=n...
Good advice!
Aldeman On Education
www.chadaldeman.com?utm_source=n...
It wouldn't be the Gadfly w/o an occasional Checker rant. This time it's about declining standards high school graduation standards. This is an interesting topic b/c we know the end points. A few thoughts 👇
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The collapse of graduation standards | Episode 992 of The Education Gadfly Show
This week, Fordham’s President Emeritus Checker Finn joins the show to unpack a troubling trend—the collapse of graduation standards—and why it matters for every American student.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It wouldn't be the Gadfly w/o an occasional Checker rant. This time it's about declining standards high school graduation standards. This is an interesting topic b/c we know the end points. A few thoughts 👇
fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
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It’s an honor to serve as Chair of the Board for the @dqcdata.bsky.social as we celebrate 20 years of making data work for policymakers, families, and communities.
Hear my and other leaders' thoughts about the continued importance of DQC's work here: dataqualitycampaign.org/about/twenty...
Hear my and other leaders' thoughts about the continued importance of DQC's work here: dataqualitycampaign.org/about/twenty...
Twenty Years of DQC - Data Quality Campaign
Twenty Years of DQC For two decades, the Data Quality Campaign has been the preeminent voice advocating for transforming the role of data to ensure that people can make education and workforce decisio...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s an honor to serve as Chair of the Board for the @dqcdata.bsky.social as we celebrate 20 years of making data work for policymakers, families, and communities.
Hear my and other leaders' thoughts about the continued importance of DQC's work here: dataqualitycampaign.org/about/twenty...
Hear my and other leaders' thoughts about the continued importance of DQC's work here: dataqualitycampaign.org/about/twenty...
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Great article by @mattbarnum.bsky.social cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/the-southe...
The "southern surge": What's really going on?
There have been some Southern success stories, though we're still figuring out what drove them.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Great article by @mattbarnum.bsky.social cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/the-southe...
One of the things that I find interesting in this work is that the relationship between teacher applications/slot and poverty is different for traditional public and charter schools. Here's a pic, you'll have to read the paper for more on this!
October 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
One of the things that I find interesting in this work is that the relationship between teacher applications/slot and poverty is different for traditional public and charter schools. Here's a pic, you'll have to read the paper for more on this!
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We are recruiting postdocs at DIL this year. Please apply!
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#EconJobMarket #EconSky
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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October 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Long layover (maybe shutdown related) in Chicago, but at least I had @natmalkus.bsky.social in my ear. Topic: reform in Houston under Mike Miles. I'll wait for the study to come out to conclude definitely whether the reforms worked, but it sure looks promising. But...👇
www.aei.org/podcast/hous...
www.aei.org/podcast/hous...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Long layover (maybe shutdown related) in Chicago, but at least I had @natmalkus.bsky.social in my ear. Topic: reform in Houston under Mike Miles. I'll wait for the study to come out to conclude definitely whether the reforms worked, but it sure looks promising. But...👇
www.aei.org/podcast/hous...
www.aei.org/podcast/hous...
Really terrific conference, so glad I got to go!
We did it! Thank you all who participated in our conference and helped us celebrate 20 years of Education Reform 🎉
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Really terrific conference, so glad I got to go!