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@drconstance.bsky.social

Associate Prof/Education policy researcher, DC sports lover/native Washingtonian , Duke Delta, and reality tv watcher. Working behind enemy lines https://linktr.ee/drconstance

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Joshua Goodman@joshua-goodman.com · 4w ago

🚨New working paper alert!🚨 Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have grown rapidly. Who uses them? Do they improve kids' skills? BU econ PhD student Samuel Nitkin and I provide answers in: "Kumon Up: Private Tutoring Centers and Student Achievement" www.nber.org/papers/w35671 1/?

Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have expanded rapidly in recent decades. Combining data on business locations, household spending, and district test scores, we study who uses these centers and how they affect academic skills. Nearly half of tutoring users are from the top income decile, with Asian and White households five and two times as likely to purchase tutoring as Black and Hispanic households. A staggered differences-in-differences design shows the opening of a district's first chain center raises district-wide math and reading scores by 0.02-0.03 standard deviations, at a much lower cost than public spending typically producing similar gains. Math effects are largest for White and Asian students, so that center entry widens racial achievement gaps, though less so in more racially integrated districts. These private investments help their users, deepen educational inequality, and shape outcomes by which state accountability systems and families judge schools.
Wheelock Educational Policy Center@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social · last mo.

Expanding early care and education access requires growing the early educator workforce. Our new WEPC brief from @piacar.bsky.social runs the numbers for Massachusetts: for every educator added, roughly four more must be recruited just to replace those who leave. Read the full brief below.

Understanding ECE Workforce Needs in Massachusetts

Analysis of recent investments in ECE programs in Massachusetts. Shows that a stronger workforce is key to meeting demand.

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Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · last mo.

These guys work so hard to be racists, and then they drive one guy to death and all of a sudden it’s like don’t lump me in with them just because I’m into skull measuring