Exploring Whether and How Teacher Residencies Offer a Different Kind of Preparation journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

In case you missed them, we published two great Learning Curve essays in April.

First, Research Alliance's Cheri Fancsali & Janice Lee looked at whether NYC's CS4All Initiative led to changes in computer science course-taking: urban.org/research/publi…

In the 2021-22 school year revenues increased by 1.3 percent overall, but that was entirely driven by federal funds. Both local and state revenues were down slightly (in inflation-adjusted terms).

nces.ed.gov/pubs2024/20243…

Maybe not so surprising trends in terms of teacher morale, but also not good.

It's out in the wild! Where do teachers come from?

The Long and Winding Road: Mapping the College and Employment Pathways to Teacher Education Program Completion in Washington State - Dan Goldhaber, John Krieg, Stephanie Liddle, Roddy Theobald, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00…

I don't know if ban is the right strategy, but I definitely have big concerns about phone use in WA schools.

Delighted to share my thoughts on the important role of community partners in urban district recovery efforts. Read the full blog post here: restartnetwork.org/blog/the-vital…

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: 'Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility' by Catherine Haeck and Jean-William Laliberté. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Publishing in economics journals takes nearly twice as long as journals from comparable fields in other social sciences. We spoke with Dan Hamermesh of UT Austin about why the pace of publishing in economics is slow and how to fix it. #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/publi…

Definitely not healthy. Pensions are a third rail topic in education, but that's going to come back and bite us at some point.

Pretty straightforward research-driven message.

As we head into the summer and another round of Teacher Labor Market Discourse, some relevant context is that economy-wide the quit rate looks like it's finally back down to pre-pandemic levels.

Important new working paper from David Blazar, Max Anthenelli, Wenjing Gao, Dr. Ramon Goings, & Seth Gershenson tracking prospective teachers from high school to the teaching workforce using Maryland SLDS data. So much to learn from just the figure below!

edworkingpapers.com/ai24-945

Current Expenditures per Pupil for Public PreK-12 Education Increased by 1.8 percent in FY 22 (School Year 2021-22) nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubs…

An important suggestion from Chad Aldeman: “Evaluate everything… If the district expanded or created a summer or tutoring program, did the participating students make gains?” Collecting data is the key to ensuring every dollar goes to good use. The 74 the74million.org/article/4-thin…

📢New Working Paper📢
Princeton University doctoral student Jason Fontana & I provide new causal evidence that ESA implementation led IA private schools to increase tuition. When eligibility was universal (K), private schs increased prices 21-25%, compared w 10-16% in grades w partial elig

Leveraging Economic Data to Understand the Education Workforce nces.ed.gov/blogs/nces/pos…

Holy cow, very cool.

New WP w/ Angela Cools, Grooms, O'Keefe, Joe Price & Anthony Wray: nber.org/papers/w32407?…. Using sibling fixed effects & full census counts, we show remarkably stable first-born premiums in occupational, inergenerational, & social outcomes for 1835-1910 (male) birth cohorts.