Tomorrow: Dr. Thurston Domina of UNC-Chapel Hill presents “Beyond Tracking and Detracking: The Dimensions of Organizational Differentiation in Schools" for the EPIC Speaker Series. ow.ly/DZHL30m6uJd

There's still time to apply to join our School of Education faculty Saint Louis University ... We're looking for a new Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership to join our innovative & entrepreneurial team (including John James & Dr Karen Tichy & others) !

Is free and reduced-price lunch a valid measure of student disadvantage? A new multi-state study led by UNC School of Education researcher @ThadDomina reveals surprising findings about this decades-old metric. He joins Jonathan Supovitz on our latest podcast: bit.ly/2R7wsiR

.Joe Waddington & Mark Berends study impact of the largest voucher program in the U.S. to find that students w/ a voucher attending private schools had test scores ⬇️ See the latest in JPAM bit.ly/2AhBJi9

My 11-yr-old son asked to post this poll as a science experiment. He is very interested in this question & hopes to have reliable data. Can you please RT? He would be very grateful. Do you think a human brain can think, in principle, a finite or an infinite number of thoughts?

I feel like I'm disappointing the people who followed me after Matthew G Springer promised I'd post more whale videos at APPAM, so here's a retweet of an albino whale from the bay!

Happy to share new article on student-teacher race congruence w/@imsydoan and Matthew G Springer published in @AeraOpen. We substantiate and extend prior work on the effects of student-teacher race congruence on academic achievement /1 bit.ly/2Cn3VkR

Whoa! Education Week was kind enough to feature our study on student-teacher race congruence in a blog post this week. Thank you for the feature and for encouraging continued work in this area @imsydoan Matthew G Springer @aeraopen bit.ly/2rMooJO

Positive impacts of student teacher race-match transcends borders. Check out new @AeraOpen research from UNC School of Education's Matthew G Springer and Peabody College's Ela Joshi & @imsydoan journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… AERA

Interesting new study showing that teacher retention bonuses boosted test scores in high-poverty Tennessee schools sciencedirect.com/science/articl… via Walker Swain, Matthew G Springer and @rodrila1

Offering a one-time bonus could help keep high-performing teachers in high-needs schools and raise student scores, according to a new study. edwk.it/2FhupqR

TLDR: One way to improve test scores in high-poverty schools is incentivizing good teachers to stay.

On this day in 1795, UNC-Chapel Hill officially opened, becoming the first public university in the United States to open, and the only one to hold classes in the 18th century.

New work by Matthew G Springer shows that $5,000 retention bonuses for good teachers can increase reading scores blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teach… via Education Week

Our students are go-getters! Sandrika Freeman, an HDFS major at #UNC, is doing an internship with NC DPI at its CCES conference in March, one that's above-and-beyond her program-required internship. #edNC

Kudos Matthew G Springer !!!!

Few things can change a life like the power of an education. That's why the UNC School of Education has worked for more than 140 years to address complex educational questions and issues through cutting-edge research, development and engagement #UNC225 ⤵️ unc.live/2SpKVej

Great overview of important work and amazing colleagues here UNC School of Education !