Congrats, Danielle!!!!! So excited for you. Williams is lucky to have you.
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Congrats, Danielle!!!!! So excited for you. Williams is lucky to have you.
Out today, a short and accessible policy and practice summary of our new working paper "Is Teacher Effectiveness Fully Portable?"
Via the @annenberginstitute.bsky.social
edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
ICYMI - Great coverage of our working paper "U.S. Schools’ Proximity to Environmental Hazard Sites" in @edweek.org
Full paper:
edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384
www.edweek.org/leadership/m...
Education policy doesn’t always require sweeping reforms. Getting the basics right—retaining strong teachers, adopting high-quality curricula, and ensuring students have sufficient time in school—can go a long way.
Really appreciate hearing your perspective, Marcus! How is this being talked about / or not / in your community and among your colleagues?
Intergenerational transfers for the win!
via @the74.bsky.social
Really glad that the importance of time in school is receiving greater attention among state lawmakers and the education press.
www.the74million.org/article/amid...
Was talking with a reporter from a New York-based publication this morning who paused the conversation mid-sentence and shouted to someone "how's that bagel coming along?" 🗽🥯 😅.
You don't want to miss this one, folks!
So much fun to visit @tamu.bsky.social and meet the amazing faculty and students at the College of Ed and Dept. of Economics. I think I might open all my future seminars with a rousing "HOWDY!"
Everything really is bigger in Texas.
@brown-ibes.bsky.social ⬆️
#SustainableED is kicking off Brown Climate Week w/ a moderated panel @brownedudept.bsky.social @annenberginstitute.bsky.social
Where Climate Meets Education Policy & Practice: Perspectives from the Field in Rhode Island
164 Angell St Room 202
2-3 pm
Register here
events.brown.edu/annenberg-in...
Such a joy to visit NC State College of Ed for their Research Celebration to talk about the past, present, and future of the teaching profession.
A big highlight was the poster session with all the really impressive & important research students are doing. Thx @lamdspham.bsky.social for having me!
Check out this great overview in @the74.bsky.social of our recent paper examining the scale and scope of students' potential exposure to industrial pollution and toxic sites while at school. #SustainableED
@AnnenbergInst WP:
edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384
www.the74million.org/article/mill...
Title page for "Raising the Floor: Teacher Retention Effects of a Statewide Minimum Salary Increase"
Histograms showing the increase in teacher salaries for beginning teachers and teachers with 5 years of experience. These figures show a large increase in salaries while also showing substantial compression, indicating that pay differentials between districts shrunk.
What happens when you shrink salary differences between districts, increase beginning teacher pay by over $10,000, and compress salary schedules?
@gzamarro.bsky.social, @jbmcgee.bsky.social, @taylornwilson.bsky.social, Miranda Vernon, and I find out in our new CALDER working paper: bit.ly/4l4b5hO
It’s Pub Day!
My first book, The Science of Second Chances, hits shelves today. I can’t wait to hear what y’all think.
I hope it fills you with hope and optimism about what is possible in the public safety space. ✨
Loved this talk. Check it out on YouTube.
More learning-focused school gardens, please!
What great company! Thanks, Laura.
Much appreciated, Jeff!
Honored to be among this group of distinguished scholars whose work has taught me so much.
Great practitioner-facing summary of our new paper by Rachel Schechter and its implications for:
➡️teacher hiring
➡️teacher induction
➡️teacher coaching
➡️principal leadership
gamma.app/docs/Is-Teac...
Don't miss @mattbarnum.bsky.social's great @chalkbeat.org piece about our findings & how they fit within the broader context of research on teacher effectiveness and past/current policy efforts to raise achievement through reforms to teacher pay & evaluation.
www.chalkbeat.org/2026/02/17/t...
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This evidence is consistent w/ real declines in teacher performance when teachers move to schools w/ less supportive working conditions and very different student populations.
This suggests teacher effectiveness is more dynamic than often assumed & school contexts matter.
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More formal DiD estimates comparing changes in VAM pre vs. post transfer for incentivized teachers in treatment teams relative to teachers filling vacancies on control teams point to significant declines in performance, w/ a partial rebound in the second year post-transfer.
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Simple time-series evidence points to meaningful declines in high-performing, incentivized-transfer teachers' performance relative to teachers who filled vacancies on control-group teams through the natural labor market process.
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We leverage a well-known RCT of transfer incentives & find that prior VAM of high-performing incentivized-transfer teachers is only moderately predictive of their effects on achievement in struggling schools.
This is consistent w/ potential bias OR true changes in performance.
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🚨Thrilled to share our new @nber.org WP.
Research and policy often assume teacher effectiveness is essentially fixed.
We revisit this question by studying what happens when high-performing teachers are incentivized to transfer to struggling schools.
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nber.org/papers/w34845
@matthewakraft.com will host a moderated panel with three leading practitioners in Rhode Island engaged in environmental education as part of Brown University's first-ever Climate Week.
Learn more about this @edsustainable.bsky.social event: events.brown.edu/event/327455...
Care about schools? Concerned about climate change?
I hope you'll take 4 minutes to listen to the newest “Possibly" podcast from @brown-ibes.bsky.social.
We talk about the origins of #SustainableED & how education systems can adapt to & address climate change.
thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...