3 ways that schools are doing educational equity wrong fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

So well said and definitely worth reading:

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.Phil Hill has revised the color scheme in his map to make clear that the drop in FAFSA (college financial aid forms) goes from very bad to tragic. Kudos to Phil for making quick graphics on the fly.

Wow, this is very, very bad! The drop in FAFSA completions is about 40% nationwide.

Happy to share that our (w/ David D. Liebowitz and Aliza N Husain) paper, 'Rethinking Principal Effects on Student Outcomes,' is now published in the Journal of Public Economics (@JPubEcon).

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A Cautionary #AI Tale: Why IBM’s Dazzling Watson Supercomputer Made a Lousy Tutor - my latest for The 74 the74million.org/article/a-caut…

Great news that this paper by the fantastic Barbara Biasi won the AEA's award for Best Paper published AEJ: Policy in the past 3 years!

Important insights into the impact of flexibility in teacher pay schemes on student outcomes.

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Effects of Income on Infant Health: Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Pandemic Stimulus Checks nber.org/papers/w32310#…

'Overall, the findings suggest that income transfers during pregnancy will have little effect on socioeconomic disparities in infant health.'

Marginal Returns to Public Universities nber.org/papers/w32296#…

'cost-benefit calculations show internal rates of return of 19-23 percent for the marginal students themselves, 10-12 percent for society, and 3-4 percent for the government budget'

So proud of the great work that GTL Center advisor Roddy Theobald and our AIR colleagues Elizabeth Bettini & Allison Gilmour, PhD have done, and continue to do, to amplify issues around equity and working conditions for teachers.

What a total disaster

we will be feeling its impact for decades

high school class of 2024 is going to show huge drop in college attendance esp for disadvantaged

Thanks to Jill Barshay for writing about our work on special education teacher bonuses in Hawai`i. This fact is correct (see left figure), but focusing on the causal estimates on the right, the policy did reduce special education vacancies RELATIVE TO general education vacancies.

This is very cool!

Our ⁦recent Annenberg Institute at Brown⁩ working paper evaluates a districtwide reading intervention. We find that computer-assisted intervention aligned with a multi-tiered system of support can help schools to close the achievement gap. edworkingpapers.com/ai24-938

Three studies about teachers shortages and ways to address them. What I learned: 1) Some teaching fields have worse shortages than others. Training more people to become teachers or paying all teachers more may be good ideas, but they likely will not relieve shortages. 🧵(1/4)

Good Jill Barshay piece about targeted teacher pay increases and their effects on retention. The piece mentions a couple of CALDER Center papers:

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caldercenter.org/publications/a…

hechingerreport.org/proof-points-w…

NYT piece on an audit study (fake CVs) showing the extent to which there is discrimination in evaluating job applicants. Not surprising but still discouraging.

Gift article:

nytimes.com/2024/04/08/ups…

#Seattle