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Ben Backes

@brbackes

Education policy at American Institutes for Research and CALDER

Arlington, VA Katılım Nisan 2016
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CALDER Center@caldercenter·
New CALDER paper by @_ZeyuXu_ & @brbackes finds that in 2-year colleges in @KCTCS, HS GPA is a stronger predictor of gateway course success than test scores-- though neither has very strong predictive power alone. Read the full paper to learn more: bit.ly/4iNTibV
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CALDER Center@caldercenter·
Want to learn more about what different measures tell us about the quality of the teacher workforce? Check out this new CALDER Brief by @brbackes, @jecowan, @DeArmondMM, @CEDR_US & @RoddyTheobald based on findings from the paper below. Brief: caldercenter.org/publications/w…
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Excited to finally release into the wild our @caldercenter Working Paper that examines the relationship between both test and non-test value added and student long-run outcomes (i.e., college enrollment) (with @jecowan, @RoddyTheobald, and @CEDR_US) caldercenter.org/publications/t…

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@MatthewAKraft Thanks for sharing this! It's very well done. The chapter on foreign language instruction makes me wish we had more widespread foreign-language instruction in the US (especially in elementary)
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Roddy Theobald@RoddyTheobald·
A big thanks to @NCTQ for their write up of our (@brbackes, @jecowan, @CEDR_US) research on emergency license teachers in MA. This paper is now out in EER, see below for the paper and one page summary! Published paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… One pager: caldercenter.org/sites/default/…
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In the past four years, almost every state has lowered its entry standards for teaching. NCTQ President @HeatherPeske knows this all too well, as she was one of those state policymakers in Massachusetts. At first, the policy impact seemed slight. New research says otherwise 👇

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A takeaway: short-run impact of a pandemic response is not necessarily same as long-run impact if policy made permanent. E.g., if initial wave represented a pool of interested teachers held out by barrier, different selection mechanism than those who tried teaching bc of policy
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We do *not* find any evidence that differences across Emergency license cohorts are explained by prior contact with teacher pipeline, such as being employed in MA public schools, enrolling in prep, etc. Instead, there appear to be unobservable differences driven by selection
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Roddy Theobald
Roddy Theobald@RoddyTheobald·
It feels crazy that, in these times of school staffing challenges, we're likely facing staff layoffs in coming years as we reach the ESSER fiscal cliff. See ⬇️ for Dan's overview of our attempt, with Grace Falken, to quantify the likely impact on the public school workforce in WA
Dan Goldhaber@CEDR_US

As promised, we just released a new @caldercenter paper on how ESSER funding INFLUENCED school system hiring in WA. In particular, we are estimating the number of school system employees got hired that wouldn't have in the absence of ESSER funds. 1/n

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Roddy Theobald@RoddyTheobald·
See below for Dan's thread about our new @caldercenter paper on teacher education program admissions. I rarely get to do new things in this job, and I loved learning about and doing our first conjoint analysis as part of this paper!
Dan Goldhaber@CEDR_US

Most teachers are prepared at university-based prep programs. So, who these programs recruit & admit goes a long way to shaping the teacher workforce. What do faculty value in STEM applicants? We (many authors) asked them! tinyurl.com/bdf7xryx 1/n

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@DrMikeHansen Side note: as easy as it is to complain when the review process is frustrating, I'd like to balance that here by saying that the referees for this submission gave incredibly thoughtful and useful feedback. The process can work well!
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