I admire ProfEmilyOster ... so I'd like to add some context around pandemic school closings. The most important thing being that school closures for political leverage were not a one off...they were, instead, the culmination of teacher union activism. 🧵 educationnext.org/rolling-nation…

Why is Los Angeles such an outlier in NAEP data?

Inclusion of (high-performing) charter schools changed since last time: 'In 2019, results for Los Angeles at grades 4 and 8 and Fresno at grade 4 did not include affiliated charter schools.'

Thanks Andrew Ho for flagging!

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Great piece by Jude Schwalbach Reason Foundation RealClearEducation envisioning next generation of funding students, not systems, true power to the parents realcleareducation.com/articles/2022/… #SchoolChoice

This week NAEP, The Nation's Report Card released the Nation’s Report Card and confirmed what parents have been saying for two years now: we need transparency and quality. Our commentary is here. 🧵 #txlege #txed
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The just-released NAEP scores make one thing clear: billions of dollars, much of it not spent yet, in federal funding did little to make up for students’ lost time in the classroom during the worst of the pandemic.

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My latest op-ed:

It’s For the Kids: #Texas should follow #Arizona in #SchoolChoice

thecentersquare.com/texas/op-ed-it… The Center Square #txlege Corey A. DeAngelis Brian Harrison

The avg U.S. teacher salary has stagnated despite *huge* increases in education funding

One explanation: the workforce has shifted and there are proportionately fewer veteran teachers who earn more (true)

But compare NCES data by experience (2000 vs. 2018), still largely flat

Appears in a total coincidence that CA and NY happened to drop big pieces of their long awaited state test data on the same day NAEP came out. Nothing to see here…

Student-Centered Funding 101: What state policymakers need to know about school finance reform

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Aaron Smith appreciate this. What no one wants to say out loud is that if there are shortages the AFT and the NEA are fundamentally responsible for them…and they want to be rewarded for treating teachers poorly.

Teachers are paid on uniform salary schedules based on years of experience and education level

But this has led to shortages in subjects such as math, science, and special education

These shortages will persist until school districts respond to the market by differentiating pay

Seems like an odd strategy to end public education.

Don’t buy the cheap political rhetoric. Between 2002 and 2020, inflation-adjusted education spending in Texas increased by 16%, going from $11,473 per student to $13,346 per student.
reason.org/commentary/has… via Reason Foundation Aaron Smith