Want to see in real time what's been happening to public school enrollment in your school district? Through @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social, we've just released a school enrollment tracker for Massachusetts, allowing you to explore the data yourself. wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

Massachusetts School Enrollment Dashboard

This interactive dashboard examines the gap between the predicted and actual enrollment in Massachusetts public, private, charter, and home schools.

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I hope state & district leaders will find the guidance in @joshbleiberg.bsky.social & my policy brief helpful for minimizing the harm of teacher layoffs "The Inequitable Effects of Teacher Layoffs: What We Know and Can Do" @aefpweb.bsky.social @efpjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

I hope state & district leaders will find the guidance in @joshbleiberg.bsky.social & my policy brief helpful for minimizing the harm of teacher layoffs "The Inequitable Effects of Teacher Layoffs: What We Know and Can Do" @aefpweb.bsky.social @efpjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

Brian Jacob gave a great presentation on the effect of schools adopting Yonder pouches to restrict cell phone use at #NBERSI2026. The paper has generated lots of 🔥 takes. I think it provides a window into the value & challenges of social science research. Full paper www.nber.org/papers/w35132

Happening today! Register to join us. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-professi...

A profession under pressure: unpacking new data on teacher turnover

Teachers are the backbone of schools — but the state of the profession is fragile.

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One of my deep frustrations with US K12 education is that we typically don't teach a second language until secondary school. This is backwards. Kids pick up languages so quickly when they are young. I'd gladly exchange 6 years of secondary language classes for 6 years of elementary. I'd prefer 12.

Michael Petrilli@michaelpetrilli.bsky.social · last wk.

U.S. high schools should stop pretending to teach foreign languages Consider: Less than 1 percent of Americans became fluent in a 2nd language in school. Going through the motions contributes to the "bull-shittification" of the U.S. high school. schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/us-high-sc...

Take 1 minute to read this intuitive and incisive review of our study on the portability of teacher effectiveness by @nctq.bsky.social's Sarah Almy. Beautiful policy writing in my opinion. www.nctq.org/research-ins...

Does great teaching travel from school to school? It’s complicated. - National Council on Teacher Quality

Do great teachers perform as well after switching schools? New research on a $20,000 transfer incentive program shows the answer is complicated—and prep matters.

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Come work at the @fordschool.bsky.social at U Michigan. We are recruiting for a scholar studying democracy, its functioning and threats, broadly considered. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Queridos colegas internacionales, Estaré de año sabático en 2026–2027 y me encantaría dar seminarios en el extranjero. Si les interesa mi trabajo sobre mercados laborales docentes, tutorías, effect sizes, o impactos climáticos en la educación, escríbanme. También puedo presentarlo en español.

Dear international colleagues, I’ll be on sabbatical in 2026–27 and would be excited to give seminars at universities abroad. If my work on teacher labor markets, tutoring, effect sizes, time in school, or climate impacts on education might be of interest, please reach out.

The last several years have been tumultuous for the U.S. teaching profession. In our next Chalkbeat Ideas online event, we'll discuss the state of the teaching profession and share new data on teacher exit rates. Join us at noon ET on July 30th! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-professi...

A profession under pressure: unpacking new data on teacher turnover

Teachers are the backbone of schools — but the state of the profession is fragile.

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If you have experience as an educator in any capacity and love working with data, I hope you'll consider applying. We start reviewing applications on Monday.

Matthew A Kraft@matthewakraft.com · last mo.

🚨 I'm hiring for a (Senior) Research Associate position to work with me on a broad research agenda focused on teacher labor markets. Great opportunity to be a part of the vibrant @annenberginstitute.bsky.social community of researchers at Brown University. Links in reply Please spread the word

Our first annual SustainableED conference was a huge success. We hope you'll join us next year!

Brown University Department of Education@brownedudept.bsky.social · 4w ago

. @edsustainable.bsky.social recently held its inaugural conference on Brown University’s campus, bringing together attendees from universities, nonprofits, and policy organizations across the country. @annenberginstitute.bsky.social 🌎🏫 education.brown.edu/news/2026-07...

It's going to be a great conversation centered around new data collected by @mattbarnum.bsky.social. Join us!

Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · last mo.

Join us for this important discussion on teacher turnover on Thursday, July 30, Noon-1 ET. RSVP to save your virtual seat and to submit your questions for our panel: ckbe.at/4p2oXLs

🚨 I'm hiring for a (Senior) Research Associate position to work with me on a broad research agenda focused on teacher labor markets. Great opportunity to be a part of the vibrant @annenberginstitute.bsky.social community of researchers at Brown University. Links in reply Please spread the word

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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"In 2010, at Springfield Renaissance School, a public school in Springfield, Mass., serving mostly low-income students of color, ninth graders were trained by city engineers to conduct energy audits of school buildings. . . . " 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

Opinion | I Thought ‘No Child Left Behind’ Would Fix Public Schools. I Was Wrong.

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Really important op-ed by Ross Wiener on ed reform. Two thoughts: Some accountability seems right given investment of public $, but it also requires reciprocal support Project-based learning is powerful, but hard to do well, especially w/ high turnover www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

Opinion | I Thought ‘No Child Left Behind’ Would Fix Public Schools. I Was Wrong.

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Great thread. Excellent work @matthewakraft.com !

Matthew A Kraft@matthewakraft.com · 2mo ago

🚨Our tutoring meta-analysis is now online at RER. @bethschueler.bsky.social, Grace Falken & I analyzed 263 RCTs. What we learned has important implications for the future of tutoring and the use of meta-analyses to inform policy. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... 🧵

Layoffs are coming in districts that added positions w/ onetime pandemic-era federal aid as enrollments ⬇️ and labor/healthcare costs ⬆️. This may temporarily relieve localized shortages, but not in the long run. A shrinking industry with seniority-based layoffs is not a magnet.

Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@matthewakraft.com, Professor of Education and Economics and Annenberg affiliate, said that student achievement suffers as a result of teacher losses, particularly for students of color and those from low-income backgrounds. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Postdoc opportunity 📢 IBES seeks candidates for distinguished Voss Postdoctoral Fellows in any field relevant to environmental research. Appointments start July 2027 with an expected term of two years. Submit step-one proposals by Sept 1! ibes.brown.edu/opportunitie...

🚨Our tutoring meta-analysis is now online at RER. @bethschueler.bsky.social, Grace Falken & I analyzed 263 RCTs. What we learned has important implications for the future of tutoring and the use of meta-analyses to inform policy. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... 🧵

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Josh Bleiberg Receives National NAEd/Spencer Fellowship - University of Pittsburgh School of Education

During the prestigious national fellowship, he will study education policy issues related to state school district takeovers.

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So excited to visit the University of Stavanger in Norway and present at the Synapse Lab tomorrow!

Teacher union influence is waning. In A Crowded Table, @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social, Sandy Frost Waldron, and Rebecca Jacobsen rank union strength across all fifty states and D.C. and examine how the K–12 landscape has grown more crowded. Read the report: fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...

A Crowded Table: Teacher Union Strength in 2026

Researchers use the latest publicly available data and a fresh survey of K–12 stakeholders in all 50 states to provide a comprehensive update to Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength...

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I've started a Substack! In "Probable Causation: The Newsletter," I'll share regular updates on what I'm thinking about in the evidence-based public safety space. Please subscribe and share! First post linked below.

Two examples of states stepping up to hold the line on instructional time by enforcing minimum hours requirements & blocking furloughs. Both of these moves also have major budget implications for districts. 1) Oregon: opb.org/article/2026... 1/2

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek orders schools to maintain instructional hours: What happens now?

Oregon is made up of over 200 schools and education service districts, and the governor’s instructional time order won’t land the same everywhere.

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I would camp out overnight to buy a book-length sociological treatise about the broader influence of Bloom's 2-sigma paper on research, culture, education and technology. Someone please write this book!

New WP: NAEP and State tests often disagree about educational progress. How much? What do we do? We show how to use these "two watches" to improve trend measurement whenever we have multiple trends. Our paper, including methods underlying our new SEDA/EOP data: edopportunity.org/papers/two_w...

Genuine question about #1 here: Does there exist anything empirical looking at how CAL compares to free reading in that free time space? Restated bluntly - how would computer-based enrichment compare to just reading a book?