Data posted by the CDE has been outdated and occasionally inaccurate, forcing legislators to pass laws based on old data and researchers to delay inquiries. CDE officials say they are adding 17 new employees to the data department to help. edsource.org/?page_id=714096 via @edsource

Important leading evidence of the post-pandemic decoupling of math grades & learning👇 This dovetails with a striking & anomalous stylized fact: rising HS graduation rates despite learning loss, the youth mental-health crisis, the sustained increases in chronic absenteeism,...

This Claire Cain Miller The Upshot article has me reflecting on how the gendered nature of the teaching profession may intersect with the ways we train, evaluate, and pay teachers to create and sustain our current equilibrium. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

American school districts will face their biggest budget crunch in years as pandemic aid comes to an end in September. Districts across the U.S. must make tough decisions about cuts that will affect millions of families as soon as the next school year. nyti.ms/3VX3gzr

“Some of what exists as homeschooling may be functionally equivalent to truancy,” Dee said. “We just don’t know.” What's Going On With Public School Enrollment? All the Big Questions, Answered edweek.org/leadership/wha…

My excellent Stanford Graduate School of Education colleague francis a. pearman is leading the way on how school districts can address enrollment loss in a manner informed by values and data. 👇 Enrollment Down. Achievement Lackluster. Should This School Close? edweek.org/leadership/opi…

1 out of every 4 students is chronically absent. The serious challenges of pandemic academic recovery are very much with us. New data and reporting from my The Associated Press collaboration.👇 apnews.com/article/school…

Really exciting new report, out today from CESR and USC Rossier, with Amie Rapaport, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra, and Dan Silver. We're focusing on the UnderstandingAmerica data we have on children's mental health and its relationship with school outcomes. (PDF: cesr.usc.edu/documents/A_Na…) A thread:

"Texas parents, your kids must be in school" dallasnews.com/opinion/editor…

Republicans & Democrats, police & community know that our standard response to behavioral health crises is broken. How do we know if alternatives are working? We at Arnold Ventures want to figure this out! Check out our Q&A with Tom Dee & Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. arnoldventures.org/stories/unders…

Check out this Arnold Ventures interview with Tom Dee about his AV-funded research on non-police crisis response programs. arnoldventures.org/stories/unders…

Supported by Arnold Ventures, researchers are studying alternative crisis response programs, like the one in San Mateo County, which deploy mental health experts alongside or instead of law enforcement. Read more in our Q&A with Tom Dee 👇 arnoldventures.org/stories/unders…

Since the pandemic, public school enrollment's plunged by more than a million students nationwide. This is forcing districts to consider closing schools on an unprecedented scale. My look at this wrenching process in one city, for ProPublica & The New Yorker: propublica.org/article/school…

"It’s like you’re watching institutions decline in real time. Anchors of the community are disappearing.” My latest, for ProPublica & The New Yorker, on the looming wave of school closures following the sharp post-pandemic decline in public school enrollment. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Join us in about 2 hours for this EdSource chronic-absenteeism roundtable including parent, practitioner, and researcher insights. Nearly 1,300 have already registered: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We got trouble, folks, right here in River City. Trouble with a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for p-hacking.

My piece in The Atlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Quick Start guide for Bl*esky-Curious Econ Lovers to lower the cost & boost the benefit of engaging. AEA Journals, JPE, NBER, QJE, RAND, REStud... and lots of folks there now. All that's missing is you! aaronsojourner.org/for-bluesky-cu…

Thanks, Fordham Institute's Dr. Northern, for discussing our early-literacy study Sarah Novicoff I see this as a scalable approach to school improvement b/c it blended explicit guidance/oversight ("Science of Reading") w flexibility for site-level adaptation fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…