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Really excited to have this piece out on the Brown Center Chalkboard blog with @lmasonwms.bsky.social, @afgilmour.bsky.social, & @lizbettini.bsky.social on the importance of targeted solutions to special education teacher staffing challenges. See below!

Heading to Seattle for #2025APPAM this week? Be sure to check out presentations from CALDER experts @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @brbackes.bsky.social, & @cedr.bsky.social.

Click here to learn more about the conference: www.appam.org/conference-e...

How do early achievement gaps impact students' academic mobility? New CALDER paper uses WA data to track student test and non-test outcomes from 3rd grade to high school, finding that students who begin behind tend to stay behind.

Read here👉 caldercenter.org/publications...
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Presentations from CALDER experts at 2025 APPAM Fall Research Conference

Heading to Seattle for #2025APPAM next week? Be sure to check out presentations from CALDER experts @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @brbackes.bsky.social, & @cedr.bsky.social. Click here to learn more about the conference: www.appam.org/conference-e...

Thanks to @cedr.bsky.social, Cyrus Grout, @drconstance.bsky.social, Elton Mykerezi, @aaronsojourner.org, & Lauren Dachille for their work on this paper!

Despite widespread concerns about teacher shortages, evidence on the supply of teacher applicants is limited. New CALDER research uses job posting & application data from school districts & charter organizations to explore the teacher application landscape.
Read 👉 bit.ly/4oHMfEV

Lessons from COVID-19: How schools adapted and what we learned | Bellwether posted on the topic | LinkedIn Five years after the onset of COVID-19, what have we learned about how schools adapted? The pandemic forced school leaders to make big decisions in real time, often without precedent. Join Bellwethe...

Five years after the onset of COVID-19, what have we learned about how schools adapted?

Today @ 2 ET: Join @bellwetherorg.bsky.social & CALDER to explore what we learned from pandemic-era research & how these findings can guide education policy today.

Register ➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/bellwe...

Flyer for LinkedIn Live conversation with Bellwether & CALDER on Monday, October 20 @ 2 PM ET Webinar title: The Pandemic Learning Project: Using Research to Shape Stronger Policy Panelists: Michael DeArmond, Dan Goldhaber, Andy Rotherham, & Melissa Steel King

Join @bellwetherorg.bsky.social and CALDER on Monday 10/20 @ 2 PM ET for a LinkedIn Live conversation on what we learned from pandemic-era research and how these findings can guide education policy today.

Register ➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/bellwe...
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Our @caldercenter.bsky.social research brief with @cedr.bsky.social and @ahkatz5.bsky.social on special education identification during the pandemic is now published in EEPA! We show that, after an initial dip, identification rates have now "caught up" with pre-pandemic norms: tinyurl.com/y4bea5y5

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...

Traditional state data systems often lack the info needed to answer fundamental questions about teacher supply & demand. Two new CALDER briefs explain how new approaches can help fill these gaps.

➡️ SUPPLY: bit.ly/3WchGex
➡️ DEMAND: bit.ly/4nJtLnA

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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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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What is the prevalence of late hiring & what factors predict it? New CALDER paper by @cedr.bsky.social & Maia Goodman Young uses scraped job posting data from WA to examine late staffing & how it varies by district & subject area.

Read here: caldercenter.org/publications...

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What Happened When States Dropped Teacher Licensing Requirements? New research into that period offers clues about what more permanent changes to licensure requirements could effect.

Some evidence on the impact of COVID-era teacher licensure waivers (& nice write up of recent @caldercenter.bsky.social working papers).

What Happened When States Dropped Teacher Licensing Requirements? www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

For your Monday morning enjoyment!: two new @caldercenter.bsky.social papers looking at the effects of pandemic-era teacher licensure test waivers on the teacher labor market:

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New @caldercenter.bsky.social paper alert! We (big group of authors) look at summer school as a pandemic recovery strategy.

What do we find? 👇

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New CALDER report by @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @afgilmour.bsky.social, Equia Aniagyei-Cobbold & Marcy Stein analyzes administrative, survey, & interview data related to 7 Attract Prepare Retain projects in PA, all targeting the special educator pipeline.

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In a recent @caldercenter.bsky.social study, @lindseykaler.bsky.social, @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, and @natejones.bsky.social show how #SpecialEducation teacher turnover negatively impacts test scores—making teacher retention a critical priority.

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The Pandemic Learning Project: Using Research on COVID-Era Policy Change to Strengthen K-12 Education | Bellwether

CALDER partnered with @bellwetherorg.bsky.social on a new series looking at how pandemic-era research can help education leaders navigate today’s K–12 policy challenges. Check out the first report here: bellwether.org/publications...
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Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social‬. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: ‬ tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m
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What career paths do CTE teachers take before entering the classroom? NEW CALDER working paper analyzes WA state employment records and teacher staffing data to understand the "front end" of the CTE pipeline. Learn more: bit.ly/4164PNv

Excited to share a new working paper with Bluesky-less Equia Aniagyei-Cobbold and @roddy-theobald.bsky.social : Unequal and Maybe Inequitable: Emergency Permitted Special Education Teachers in Pennsylvania

Read it here- tinyurl.com/372h4bcy

This study is part of a broader IES funded project—the CALDER Recruitment & Retention Center, which is a cross-state effort that will evaluate teacher recruitment & retention policies around the country. Click here to learn more about CALDER R&R: bit.ly/45gxSkv

CALDER Working Paper 320-0625 The Effects of the Four-Day School Week on Teacher Recruitment and Retention by Andrew M. Camp, J. Cameron Anglum, Cory Koedel, Se Woong Lee, & Tuan D. Nguyen

Are four-day school weeks actually helping to ease staffing challenges like districts hope? New CALDER study examines the impact of 4DSWs on teacher recruitment & retention outcomes in Missouri, and finds no evidence of improvement so far. Learn more: bit.ly/43xXzvI

Abstract of CALDER working paper, Impacts of Staff Turnover on Test Scores for Students with and without Disabilities."

New @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! A study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @natejones.bsky.social‬, & @lizbettini.bsky.social. We find staff turnover matters for SWDs. Ungated WP & one pager:
• Working paper: tinyurl.com/j3rykkp9
• One-pager: tinyurl.com/bddtzxtp

We answer this question in our just published @aeraedresearch.bsky.social paper. Here's the ungated @caldercenter.bsky.social version: caldercenter.org/publications...

So, what do we find?
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Figure 4 from CALDER Working Paper 318-0525

New CALDER working paper by @zeyuxu.bsky.social & @brbackes.bsky.social finds that in 2-year colleges in KY, HS GPA is a stronger predictor of gateway course success than test scores-- though neither has very strong predictive power alone. Read the full paper to learn more: bit.ly/4iNTibV

Are you a chess fan? What about a fan of wonky statistical work? Put these things together and you get an interesting (& new) @caldercenter.bsky.social paper on male-female ratings gaps in high-level chess:

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New CALDER Working Paper by @briankisida.bsky.social , Matthew Pepper, Michael Podgursky, and Michelle Wickman uses longitudinal data from the US Chess Federation to analyze male-female ratings gaps among young chess players.

Read the full paper here! 👉 bit.ly/3YNTGzJ