Josh Bleiberg

At this point I’m in active denial about my “to read” list 😂

Publishing this paper has been a journey. It started as a chapter in my dissertation and has changed considerably since then. The reviews greatly improved this manuscript by refocusing me on the evergreen lessons for accountability systems.

I have long hypothesized that the rare contexts in which accountability works are attributable to resources rather than policy. This paper falls short of proving that point, but I have some future work that focuses on this question.

The more important contribution (at least for me) is the examination of heterogeneity across states. The waivers had a positive effect in 14 states. Half of the variation in achievement effects is explained by federal per-pupil education funding.

I have a new paper on the effects of the NCLB waivers! The paper found its niche by estimating the effect of waivers in each state across the country. Similar to what others have found, the waivers caused a small decrease in student achievement. doi.org/10.1177/0895...

The U.S. Department of Education is far behind on producing key statistics | Brookings Federal education data releases have slowed dramatically, with major gaps in the 2024 Digest and Condition of Education report.

Thread in the am but if you want the main takeaway: The 2024 Digest of Education Statistics (under the current administration) includes just 27 tables by the (Congressionally mandated) deadline—far fewer than the nearly 270, on average, published in prior years

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Very cool paper! Looking forward to giving it a close read.

What do you call the hurricane of emotions that occurs when you are enjoying Andor, super annoyed by the monopoly go ads, but also aren't willing to upgrade your Disney+ subscription?

Here's one of my best friends (who, before being illegally fired, was the data scientist at NEH) showing just how much money NEH could distribute back out to US taxpayers based on their lifetime contributions. Get ready to make it rain with thousands of pennies y'all!

Just Education Policy

Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an *in-person* Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.

Congrats Matt! Beyond well-deserved!

The Unofficial List of Ed Policy Orgs for Job/Internship Seekers

It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Practice and Undergraduate Program Coordinator. I'm on the search committee and am more than happy to answer questions. cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

COOPER DEJEAN IS NOT A SAFETY!!

It's an amazing dataset. Thanks for your work on it!

Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) (Time Series: 1990 - present) The QWI are a set of 32 economic indicators including employment, job creation/destruction, wages, hires, and other measures of employment flows.

We hope this paper opens the door to other researchers who want to explore related research questions! Instructions for accessing the API are here (www.census.gov/data/develop...) and there’s a R package for accessing the API as well (tidyqwi). 7/7

We also explore labor market trends by educator characteristics (e.g., race, ethnicity, educational attainment) and show that the education labor market is weaker for educators who are non-White and did not graduate college. Finally, we briefly explore variation in pandemic local labor markets. 6/7

Of course, education labor market measures typically compare a specific school year to the prior school year. We show that our procedure using QWI data produces labor market measures of turnover and net-negative job loss that are strongly correlated with state data (R>0.73). 5/7

BTW please send me related papers so that I can cite them. QWI measures are created using changes in quarter-to-quarter counts. For example, job leavers are the number of employees who worked at a specific school district in 2024 Q1 and then did not in 2024 Q2. 4/7

Our objectives with this paper are to (1) hype up the QWI dataset to everyone studying teacher/education labor markets and (2) to develop school year level measures that we create using the quarter level QWI data. There are shockingly few examples of K12 labor market research that uses the QWI. 3/7

In my view the QWI is a highly under used tool created by Census Bureau using worker level unemployment insurance data. I suspect this is because the most useful data is available only through the API and the QWI’s website obscures the depth/breadth of the publicly available data. 2/7

Leveraging Quarterly Workforce Indicators to Analyze Teacher Labor Market Dynamics: Inequitable Trends in Educator Turnover Educator labor markets vary considerably across the country and can change quickly during recessions. We use data from the Quality Workforce Indicators (QWI) on educators in Elementary and Secondary S...

🚨I am psyched to share a new working paper from @edutuan.bsky.social & myself 🚨. We show how to estimate turnover & net-negative job loss (think ~shortages) with public data for K12 schools by county from 2000 to present, by race, ethnicity, educ attainment & gender. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1135 🧵

I hope we can agree that everyone is a winner when Dan Snyder is upset.

a football player with the number 9 on his back is raising his arms in the air during a game . Alt: Nick Foles raising his arms in the air during a game .

FLY EAGLES FLY

Should I Stay or Should I Go (Later)? Teacher Intentions and Turnover in Low-Performing Schools and Districts before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Abstract. Teacher turnover is a perennial concern, especially in low-performing, high-poverty schools. While districts and schools may try to anticipate and mitigate turnover by surveying teachers abo...

Happy to share that our paper on the relationship between teacher intentions and teacher turnover behavior is now published at Education Finance and Policy. (with @edutuan.bsky.social @alexmoran.bsky.social Katharine Strunk, and Jason Burns). direct.mit.edu/edfp/article... 1/5

a man with a beard is talking into a microphone on a sports field . ALT: a man with a beard is talking into a microphone on a sports field .

E A G L E S

I actually used the complementary access provided to me by a publisher in exchange for reviewing to find an article that was not accessible through my university. Achievement unlocked?