Jo R. King

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

The day Rihanna releases new music is the day that the economy /really/ implodes

Tuxedo cat perched on mattress looking very accusatory

Tuxedo cat asleep on mattress

Displeased about moving; too sleepy to do anything about it

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dream crossover episode 🤩

In Search of Equity, WNBA Players Have a Nobel Laureate on Their Side Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who focuses on the role of women in the American economy, has been advising the WNBPA in its CBA negotiations.

Spent a bit of time at the WNBA All-Star Game chatting with a new basketball fan: Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who has been advising the WNBA players in their labor negotiations, part of a more robust strategy this year from the union

@robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social let me post the working paper

Why doesn't police reform work? Because police depts can't credibly commit to their end of the bargain (doing more/better/riskier work in exchange for more $)

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...

Last week just-out work by @joshua-goodman.com & @abbyfrancis.bsky.social was featured on the @educationnext.bsky.social podcast. Listen for interesting convo of key insights and implications.

www.educationnext.org/the-educatio...

Full policy brief at: wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

Kinda slays

I'm grateful to have been able to leave, but yeesh is it painful to watch from afar.

Coeur d'Alene was my hometown-- special sort of white nationalist, militia, conservatism that has been brewing here for decades that's been spilling over the past few years:

2022: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/u...
2024: www.teenvogue.com/story/north-...
2025: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Need your Letterboxd reviews on all of these!

Mine:

🔥What’s the only thing hotter than this week’s weather?🔥

Our new @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social working paper:

“School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic”

In it, BU Wheelock PhD @abbyfrancis.bsky.social and I ask:

Has the pandemic permanently changed families' schooling choices?

She is! Mostly because of the green eyes

Came across one of my favorite personal examples of potentially misleading data visualization-- two data points and the y-axis truncated between 10.5 and 11.2 so the vet could really highlight my cat's seemingly rapid path toward feline obesity (she is perfectly healthy)

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

AEFP Board Nomination Form Please complete the form below if you are potentially interested in being a candidate or if you know someone who you believe could be a good fit for the AEFP Board of Directors. Board terms are three ...

Help needed! Please provide us with nominations (including self-nominations) for the AEFP Board of Directors by 5/27. We're looking for potential at-large members, governmental affiliates, teacher org affiliates, & president-elects. Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Here's the thread I wrote earlier this year about the history of TPS -- a policy that gives temporary legal status to immigrants.

SCOTUS ruled today Trump is allowed to revoke TPS of almost 350,000 people, unilaterally making these people undocumented overnight.

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.

What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.

🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

Officially PhinisheD 🤯 this weekend with the best grad companion I could ask for 🫶🏻 @sarahstrochak.bsky.social

4 years of PhD-ing flies by when you have cohort-mates who make it immensely fun 🥹

YES!!! Congrats, Erin!!

Apply soon if you’re interested - we’ll start reviewing applications shortly.

Education Policy Early Career Paper Swap The goal is to create an opportunity for early career scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates to connect with peers at similar stages and receive constructive feedback on article-length drafts they’re pre...

🚨Organizing a paper swap for early career edu policy researchers.🚨
Share a nearly-complete draft, exchange feedback, and connect with peers.
Great if you’ve got a lingering project or diss chapter that could use feedback and soft deadlines to move it forward this summer.
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Choosing Schools, Choosing Safety: How Multiple Dimensions of Safety Shape School Choices journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Trump attacks a key strategy for California schools: Flagging racial disparities in discipline Trump’s executive order, released Wednesday, attacks the concept of disparate impact — the idea that a policy that may seem neutral actually harms a racial or ethnic group.

The Trump administration said a focus on equity in discipline has harmed student safety while advocates say it’s an excuse to roll back civil rights protections.

edsource.org/2025/trump-a... by @emmagallegos.bsky.social & @jfensterwald.bsky.social @edsource.org

Screenshot of the top of the page with fresh air logo. Title is Melinda French Gates on what billionaires with 'absurd' wealth owe back to society. April 15, 20251:07 PM ET.

Screenshot of the article that reads: "I mistakenly thought that philanthropy could change things more than it could," French Gates says. "I didn't realize that it takes philanthropy in concert with civil society and government — massive government funding — to change things. If you really want to affect children's lives around the world and get vaccines out, that takes enormous government funding. Philanthropy cannot do it on its own. If you want to affect maternal health around the world, you really have to have philanthropy, again, taking on the experiments, trying things, figuring out what works, doing the research, but then it really takes government funding to scale those things up."

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Research Assistant Professor of Education Policy Current University of Arkansas System employees, including student employees and graduate assistants, need to log in to Workday via MyApps.Microsoft.com, then access Find Jobs from the Workday search ...

🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 Join our team! We are hiring a non-tenure track research assistant professor to work on our Arkansas-focused projects. We have fantastic data and lots of interesting, policy-relevant projects

Special congratulations to our Eco alum- Dr. King!

Finally have that gender neutral title: Dr. King!

Shoutout to my dissertation chair! We did it, Joe (Cimpian) @joecimpian.bsky.social

On this #TakeawayThursday: A study by Sarah Komisarow and Steven Hemelt suggests that school-based healthcare services play a critical role in reducing student absenteeism.

Read more: direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

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