Matthew A. Kraft In short, distractions leave a wake.

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Matthew A. Kraft Why are distractions take up SO much more time than we think?

Well, it's partly because of the 'aftermath' of distractions.

Students will often focus on something else and then it can take time for them to get back to the point they were at in their thinking.

Matthew A. Kraft That figure doesn't even include disruptions due to behaviour.

(which last week's DfE report suggests is more like a quarter of lesson time 😱)

Regardless, all this tends to be systematically under-estimated by leaders.

This is obvious Peps. Get in the bin.

Well... partly. I think the EXTENT of the cost is distractions is not quite that intuitive.

For example, a study from Matthew A. Kraft found that, in a typical US school, up to 20 days of learning time was lost per year to distractions.

Which is why high quality professional development is so vital.

BUT... the rate at which teachers get better also partly depends on the conditions within their school.

Teacher expertise is not a solo sport.

As promised, we just released a new CALDER Center paper on how ESSER funding INFLUENCED school system hiring in WA. In particular, we are estimating the number of school system employees got hired that wouldn't have in the absence of ESSER funds.

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If you're interested in K12 education, you should read this.

📢 Please join us on May 22 for a panel called 'Temporary Tenures.' We'll talk with academics who've taken temporary roles in public service & learn how they've leveraged their expertise to influence policy.

Register here: bit.ly/temptenure

Data visualization we can all aspire to. 💯

- Korean Government, General Sea Industry, 1926

At Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

I teach this paper and see it as a foundational text in the Economics of Education.

Our WP paper made the CBS News Daily Report along with great work by Tuan D. Nguyen, @edutuan.bsky.social Josh Bleiberg & co. at teachershortages.com

Check it out and tune in today for a second segment on the specter of teacher layoffs due to the fiscal cliff w/ Edunomics Lab

youtube.com/live/oX7sbRFy7…

This is easily within my Top 5 articles of all time and I share it more than almost any other academic piece I've read.

Teacher strikes are among the most controversial acts in the public education sector. We show that strikes are also consequential - for both politics and public education funding. ⬇️

This project was so fascinating and fun because we didn’t know what we would find. 💫💯

Great work from Matthew A. Kraft and Melissa Arnold Lyon (Mimi) on the impact of teacher strikes on funding and education policy
'Strikes shape broader support for education funding, resulting in over $600 increases in district revenues and expenditures per pupil.'

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🚨New paper in The JHR on the political economy of teacher strikes!

Matthew A. Kraft & I find that teacher strikes publicly signal the need for change in education. Strikes cause big increases in education ads in campaigns & in school spending.
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Excited to welcome Lucy Sorensen to Annenberg on Thursday for our next Education Policy Seminar

On the Margin: Who Receives a Juvenile Referral from School and What Effect Does It Have?

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Are districts 'growing their own' way?

Kick off your #AERA24 tomorrow morning at 9am w/ a great AERA Division L session on teacher recruitment!

I'll be presenting work w/ Matthew A. Kraft that describes the variation in GYO programs & classifies them based on their features

Super excited to see this out. Sarah Reckhow was an amazing collaborator. With the politics of education recently becoming such a dominant force in American politics, here’s a review that dives deeper into the longstanding debates and the new ones that are emerging. Check it out!

In a new paper, Danielle Sanderson Edwards Matthew A. Kraft Alvin Christian & Chris Candelaria show why viewpoints about & solutions to #teachershortage depend critically on whether they’re examined in aggregate or from a more local perspective. #edpolicy