Katherine Bowser

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In “The Four Day Gamble,” @katherinembowser.bsky.social‬ investigates how four-day school weeks affect staff retention and district finances.

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Read the full working paper here.

I appreciate @annenberginstitute.bsky.social writing this great summary of my work on four-day school weeks.

While there may be some short-term cost savings, there are no effects on teacher, principal, or paraprofessional staff turnover.

The Four Day Gamble: The Quasi-Experimental Effects of Four-Day School Week Adoption on Teacher, Principal, and Paraprofessional Staff Turnover and District Financial Outcomes Four-day school week (4DSW) adoption is an increasingly popular policy, particularly for rural districts that are seeking to reduce educator turnover and district expenditures. Using a staggered treat...

Four day school weeks do not reduce staff turnover edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1208

Great work from @katherinembowser.bsky.social showing that the purported staff retention gains of reduced school weeks don't actually materialize

4-day school weeks: Still a bad idea, regardless of the outcome you're trying to optimize

New working paper from me and a great group of coauthors: The Effects of the Four-Day School Week on Teacher Recruitment and Retention

caldercenter.org/publications...

Read on to see what's different about this vs. some of my prior work 🧵⬇️

Views on this site are my own and not of NCTQ. /end

In Dozens of Districts, Teachers Can’t Afford to Live Near Their Schools Aldeman: District spending is up, but educator pay isn't. Efforts to provide affordable housing for teachers have run into trouble

Per @chadaldeman.bsky.social "school district leaders in some of the biggest, most expensive places to live are making budgetary decisions that add to the housing difficulties in their communities." Read the rest of his analysis here: 3/n

Thanks, @chadaldeman.bsky.social for highlighting my work and for adding the crucial point that these skyrocketing housing costs aren't a teacher-specific problem. While ed leaders can't carry the weight of the U.S. housing market on their shoulders, many decisions being made aren't helping. 2/n

Priced out: The growing challenge of teacher pay and housing costs - National Council on Teacher Quality

In many large districts, I found that teachers five years into their careers have less purchasing power as renters and homebuyers than when they started. And, since 2019, the cost of rent skyrocketed by 51%, far surpassing novice teachers' 24% salary increase. See my full NCTQ report here 1/n

Congratulations, Matt! Now it’s your turn to celebrate!

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Save the Data: Data Preservation Event Join MDI and partners to save open data from deletion. Learn how to save data, about the importance of data preservation, and help the research...

Tomorrow afternoon, join the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy for a free in-person data preservation event to collect and archive public data sources. No registration needed. AERA is proud to co-sponsor. events.georgetown.edu/mccourt-mdi/...

Excited to #StayTillSaturday and present my work on four day school week adoption and teacher turnover. Hope to see you there! #AEFP2024

I rarely tweet, so we’ll see if this goes better! (Unlikely)