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{New} When COVID hit, states granted waivers to allow teachers "emergency" licenses without their normal training. Were those teachers worse? Today The 74 I dig into research from Ben Backes Dan Goldhaber Andrew Bacher-Hicks Olivia Chi which suggests maybe not: the74million.org/article/emerge…

See below for Dan's thread about our new CALDER Center 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!

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

Pleased to say that this article is now published in EER! James Cowan Roddy Theobald Dan Goldhaber sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A big thanks to NCTQ for their write up of our (Ben Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber) 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/…

Now published! jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/…

Ben Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber (Dan Goldhaber) & Roddy Theobald connect "nontest" teacher performance markers, such as absences and grade progression, to student college enrollment with important findings for #EducationEquity. doi.org/10.3368/jhr.10…

Want to learn more about what different measures tell us about the quality of the teacher workforce? Check out this new CALDER Brief by Ben Backes, James Cowan, Mike DeArmond, Dan Goldhaber & Roddy Theobald based on findings from the paper below. Brief: caldercenter.org/publications/w…

Publication alert! Our CALDER Center paper on inclusion and special education teacher attrition in MA, w/ Ben Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber, & Zeyu Jin, is now published in JLD. Abstract and links below! Published: tinyurl.com/p5hvfdwx Ungated: tinyurl.com/3t94s45f

Still looking for 1-2 more papers- please get in touch if thinking of submitting something value-added-ish to #2025APPAM x.com/shahh_hema/sta…

New CALDER paper by Zeyu Xu & Ben Backes 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