🚨 TIME IN SCHOOL 🚨 w/ Sarah Novicoff is now out in print! Annenberg Institute at Brown working paper edworkingpapers.com/ai22-653 AERA published version journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FMCIFGV…

1 Hasta un 25% del tiempo de instrucción se pierde en algunas centros 2 Este tiempo perdido afecta negativamente en el aprendizaje. 3 Mejorar el uso del tiempo escolar puede reducir desigualdades educativas y aumentar el rendimiento. Matthew A. Kraft en journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FMCIFGV…

#postdoc application closes in two weeks! 👇🏿👇🏿

The College of Ed., Health, & Human Sciences at The Univ. of Tennessee is seeking applicants for an Asst. Prof. to join the Dept. of Ed. Leadership & Policy Studies for a 9-month tenure-track faculty position, beginning 8/1/25. apply.interfolio.com/152197

🚨Happy to share this new WP: The Causes & Consequences of U.S. Teacher Strikes ICYMI: check out Melissa Arnold Lyon (Mimi) & my companion paper at The JHR Teacher Strikes as Public Signals: jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/… Early open access version: edworkingpapers.com/ai21-482

New Working Paper Alert! In this paper, Cyrus and I describe the results of an RCT on whether schools select better teachers when they are provided ratings about applicants from their professional references. Here’s the paper: caldercenter.org/publications/i… 👇🧵 1/n

As a setup, I love this quote from a terrific James Matthew A. Kraft Papay paper: “Districts can take steps to improve teacher quality through the hiring process, but without improved screening and selection these efforts will fail to realize their full potential.” (p. 1040) 3/n

Here's a thought piece (by me, Grace, Roddy Theobald, and Maia) about using web scraping to get real time (or close to it) data about the state of the educator labor market. A Better Measure of Teacher Shortages educationnext.org/a-better-measu…

Just highlighted these two papers in my course preview today as examples of methodological approaches that students in my #s52stats class can expect to learn. Thanks, Dan Goldhaber, Melissa Arnold Lyon (Mimi), Matthew A. Kraft, Matthew Steinberg, et al! x.com/CEDR_US/status… x.com/MimiArnoldLyon…

Brown's Matthew A. Kraft quoted in this piece: "Across multiple data points, we see that the health and the state of the teaching profession is at or near a 50-year low"

Analyzing US teacher strikes from 2007–2023 finds that strikes increase teacher compensation and working conditions with few detectable effects on productivity, from Melissa Arnold Lyon (Mimi), Matthew A. Kraft, and Matthew P. Steinberg nber.org/papers/w32862

Are paraeducators a solution to school staffing challenges and can the paraeducator-to-teacher pipeline diversify the teacher workforce? Dr. Gema Zamarro (she/her) Josh B. McGee and I look for answers in our latest working paper. 🧵⬇️

Excited to share our paper on tutoring at scale w/ Matthew A. Kraft & @marisacannata ! My thoughts on our findings a 🧵: 1/11 edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1030

These kinds of heterogeneity analyses are so important for understanding the impacts of any schooling intervention, but maybe especially COVID recovery efforts. Check out the y axis, these are big effects for students in the middle of the distribution! Nice work Danielle et al.!