Dan Goldhaber

Great opportunity for junior scholars!

Thanks to MA DESE's @clj1177.bsky.social, @nctq.bsky.social's Hannah Putman, WA OSPI's Kaori Strunk, & CALDER'S @cedr.bsky.social & @mdearmond.bsky.social for their work on these reports!

Short on time? Be sure to check out our one-pager for both research briefs: caldercenter.org/publications...

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Pandemic Resource Allocation and the Spending Priorities of School Leaders journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"principals devoted most of their federal relief aid to staffing, with a notable increase in instructional coaches compared to before the pandemic"

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Three Metrics for Monitoring Educational Progress when Tested Populations Change journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

You're funny and you're right!

The Effects of K-12 Computer Science Education Policies on Postsecondary CS Participation States have increasingly adopted policies to promote computer science education at the elementary and secondary levels. These policies are intended, in part, to promote the pursuit of computer science...

We have a new EdWorkingPaper up, from @edutuan.bsky.social, @haeryunkim.bsky.social, Chanh Lam, Mariam Saffar Pérez, Jinyoung Hur, Colleen Lewis, and me:

The Effects of K-12 Computer Science Education Policies on Postsecondary CS Participation edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301

@dqcdata.bsky.social, I think you might be interested in the supply brief as it seems a great way for states to leverage their SLDSs!

These were fun to do b/c they offer really practical advice about how to better utilize (mostly) existing data, so hopefully become more efficient + I got to work w/ a great set of co-authors!

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These briefs describe concrete ways to use SLDSs (on the supply side) and job posts/web scraping (on the demand side) to get a better/quicker assessment of the state of the teacher labor market.

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Happy to announce that @caldercenter.bsky.social just released two IES-funded briefs - they really are BRIEF! - about how to get a better handle on teacher demand and future teacher supply:

Supply side: caldercenter.org/publications...

Demand side: caldercenter.org/publications...
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They actually mention those (briefly) in the discussion! I don't know much about it, but apparently this has been a successful strategy in Britain.

Beyond test scores: Debating how to measure school quality | Episode 988 of The Education Gadfly Show This week, Fordham’s president emeritus Checker Finn and Laura Hamilton of the Center for Assessment join us for a polite debate on whether school quality should be judged by more than test scores.

The Gadfly tackles what is arguably the most important issue we face in education: how to measure school quality and the use of tests in particular. It's a good conversation.

fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...

🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

PSA: Our department of Curriculum & Instruction is hiring for an open-rank position in secondary literacy! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Not *my* department, but my College. So come work with me! (Or let me know if you want to talk about UIUC [which is great]!)

Job alert!

That's a good question. My sense is that there's lots of testing about testing mode changes, but it's definitely outside my area of expertise. That said, there was some @caldercenter.bsky.social research on this topic a while back: caldercenter.org/publications...

That's scary!

That would help explain the pattern of NAEP scores: it's the lower-achieving students that are really struggling. Let's add it to the mix of things that need evaluation.

@natmalkus.bsky.social, great episode, but don't think I didn't notice that there wasn't a GRADE IT - very disappointing.

This is just based on casual observation, but I'm not sure how much computer use is helping kids. I'm especially suspicious that computers may detrimental, especially for low-achieving kids as it could be a babysitter (I know kids are playing games in some classrooms). 👇

Terrific discussion about why test scores are falling (started before the pandemic!)! Lots of potential reasons, but I'd like to throw out an additional one. Everyone talks about phones, but I wonder if it's computers in schools (as a factor). 👇

www.aei.org/podcast/why-...

🚨New Working Paper🚨 Check out our new working paper "Trajectories into Teaching of Arkansas Educator Preparation Programs Enrollees", together with @taylornwilson.bsky.social @andrewmcamp.com, and @jbmcgee.bsky.social. Taylor is in the job market this year. Keep her in mind as you build your team

Who Wants to Be a Teacher in America? Long-standing compositional disparities and more recent concerns about the health of the teaching profession highlight the need to increase our understanding of the pipeline into K–12 teaching. Levera...

BTW, our findings pair nicely with a brand new paper by Brendan Bartanen, Andrew Avitabile, & Andrew Kwok that looks at interest in teaching using Common App data: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1275

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All of these findings underscore the idea that changing the demographics of who becomes a teacher is challenging and probably needs to happen pretty early (possibly even before college entry to influence the SAT distribution).

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We also find that lower-SAT college students are disproportionately interested in teaching, but the SAT differences are not huge.
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The results are not terribly surprising, white females are much more likely to express an interest in teaching than are other demographic groups, but even conditional on that interest, they are more likely to select a teacher ed major once in college.

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Hot off the presses a new @caldercenter.bsky.social paper on which college students are opting into a path toward becoming a teacher (by applying to a teacher ed program): caldercenter.org/publications...

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So much about this @nytimes.com piece resonates with me, in particular: "Nationally, there has been little political will from either party to meaningfully lift student outcomes."

Gift article if you want to read it:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

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Yet more evidence from @andrewdeanho.bsky.social on the perils of reliance on "percent proficient," and the alternatives needed to understand school performance over time and across groups journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

OMG, you know you've gotta get one of these!

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