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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@mattbarnum.bsky.social raises an important issue about judging elementary school quality: cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/how-can-pa...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a long one, folks: new CALDER working paper on the extent to which academic preparation predicts teacher workforce outcomes. We link college records from 3 WA public universities to who teaches, how effective they are, and who stays. 🧵 caldercenter.org/publications... 1/11

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Less than a week! I'm looking forward to a great conversation about the education research & policy ecosystem with Claire Abbott, Peggy Carr, and Michael Casserly. We will be at SREE in Baltimore, Friday at 10:45 ET. Hope you can join us.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm looking forward to being in Baltimore for the SREE conference. I'll be talking with an all-star panel about the education research and policy ecosystem and ways to make evidence matter more. Hope to see you there! sree.memberclicks.net/2026-confere...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wow on these findings for the contribution of immigrants to innovation:

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"How Test-Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High-Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds" is a great example of how sometimes research upends intuition. drive.google.com/file/d/10mW5...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's out in print (well, electronically) and yours free for 50 days! This is our (many authored paper) look at the variation in teacher job postings and application data. Lots of interesting differences between public school districts and charter schools. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Can you guess where I am from the pic? I can't quite pin down my reaction, other than "this is interesting."

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As one of my co-authors likes to say, "it's out in the wild." It being our new paper on the effects of elementary schools departmentalizing (having teachers specialize by subject). Here's the link, which is free for 50 days starting today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There are also large ethnic/racial disparities and much of this is associated with test score differences, which can be traced all the way to the third grade. The performance pyramid figure shows the proportion of students by race and gender in each test decile in the 3rd grade. 3/3

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Here's an example of the gender gaps (favoring females) in terms of college completion, especially in BA programs . 2/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Scouting out real estate for @aefpweb.bsky.social's Paris office!

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New @caldercenter.bsky.social working paper alert! We (many authors) examine what applications to different teaching & principal jobs suggest about the preferences of job applicants for schools: caldercenter.org/publications... 1/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Differentiated pay, in you I believe! A more subtle take is that I do think we ought to use pay more strategically to address teacher labor market issues & improve workforce quality. I'll be on a panel talking about this next week! Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Let me translate the abstract: we should be more serious about teacher evaluation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

There are many good things to say about @aefpweb.bsky.social, that it's an organization that knows the right mug size is just one of them!

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Interested in teacher hiring decisions? I'll be presenting research about making better hiring decision this Friday at 12:30 PT. It's in person if you are in Seattle, but you can also register here for Zoom link: washington.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@aefpweb.bsky.social is already in full swing! Lot's of good stuff, but if you want to see an interesting session on Saturday morning, I know that 10.02 is a blockbuster having read all the papers.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

@jillbarshay.bsky.social story about how parents interpret test scores and grades. New evidence finds that they are much more likely to rely on grades as an indicator for their students academic achievement. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The "()" part of title of our paper says it all "(Unexpected Findings on)...", we were very surprised by the results from a RCT we did on student teacher placements. We examined two different initiatives designed to improve student teaching and found that the intervention effected jobs ... 3/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Teacher human capital...more evidence that it really matters for long-run student outcomes: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Summer school participation pretty consistently provided modest benefits to students in math (but NOT reading), see Figure 1. The math benefits of summary school in our studies were generally more consistent and larger than what we found for tutoring (Figure 2).

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A couple of quick thoughts: 1) not surprisingly, early test performance matters for predicting high school outcomes; an important explanation for differences in high school subgroup outcomes is the change in test scores as students progress through school (see Figure 1).

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

One of the things that I find interesting in this work is that the relationship between teacher applications/slot and poverty is different for traditional public and charter schools. Here's a pic, you'll have to read the paper for more on this!

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

These were fun to do b/c they offer really practical advice about how to better utilize (mostly) existing data, so hopefully become more efficient + I got to work w/ a great set of co-authors! 3/3

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

We also find that lower-SAT college students are disproportionately interested in teaching, but the SAT differences are not huge. 3/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The results are not terribly surprising, white females are much more likely to express an interest in teaching than are other demographic groups, but even conditional on that interest, they are more likely to select a teacher ed major once in college. 2/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Hot off the presses a new @caldercenter.bsky.social paper on which college students are opting into a path toward becoming a teacher (by applying to a teacher ed program): caldercenter.org/publications... 1/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

So much about this @nytimes.com piece resonates with me, in particular: "Nationally, there has been little political will from either party to meaningfully lift student outcomes." Gift article if you want to read it: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Given what we know about late teacher hiring, it's quite likely that late posting of teacher job openings indicate trouble for student achievement. We look at this phenomenon in Washington state using scraped job openings. 1/2

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In our second paper, we used national data to assess whether licensure test waivers impacted different measures of teacher supply. While we see some evidence of a bump in new credentials in the 1st pandemic year, we do not find much overall evidence of a supply effect. 4/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Teachers coming into the profession with waivers appear initially to be as high performing/effective as those who did not have waivers, but a note of caution: In MA, later cohorts of teachers with waivers were significantly less effective. 3/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In one we look across five states at how waivers seemed to influence the demographics of new teachers and their impact on students. We find pretty consistent evidence across states that new teachers were more diverse. 2/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

For your Monday morning enjoyment!: two new @caldercenter.bsky.social papers looking at the effects of pandemic-era teacher licensure test waivers on the teacher labor market: caldercenter.org/publications... caldercenter.org/publications... A short 🧵 1/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Consistent significant positive effects on math tests, about 2.4% of an SD and no significant effects in ELA. The math results are consistent across years (an extra year helps) and districts.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Relatedly, we are far less sure about whether the gains are statistically significant. See the below figure from the report. You can see the slope (gains in teacher value added) is much flatter even after year 3 (regardless of type of school). 3/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Just want to emphasize a few things: 1) this is a really good synopsis of what I think is an important shift in grading that's flown under the radar; 2) I'm skeptical that it doesn't affect student motivation to study; 3) we really do not know anything about the impacts of this grading practice.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Bottom line: We do find that have an NBCT as a cooperating teacher increases the likelihood of student teachers being hired, but no evidence that having an NBCT as a cooperating teacher has positive effects on the future attrition or value-added of student teachers. 3/3

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We answer this question in our just published @aeraedresearch.bsky.social paper. Here's the ungated @caldercenter.bsky.social version: caldercenter.org/publications... So, what do we find? 2/n

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Are you a chess fan? What about a fan of wonky statistical work? Put these things together and you get an interesting (& new) @caldercenter.bsky.social paper on male-female ratings gaps in high-level chess: caldercenter.org/publications...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hey, some good news, ERIC lives!

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I appreciated getting to talk w/ @alecmac.bsky.social about the crucial role the federal government plays in data collection and how some of the DOGE actions threaten it. This @propublica.org piece nicely summarizes what's at risk: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Thanks to Amber for the shout out about the new @caldercenter.bsky.social paper on the longish-run effects of departmentalization in elementary schools: caldercenter.org/publications...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

On IES research: www.educationnext.org/doge-targets...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Pretty clear that NAEP can't be done w/ IES in its current state. After Gutting Staff, Education Department Remains Quiet on Future of NAEP Test www.the74million.org/article/afte...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Not sure it will matter, but I'm glad to see that the situation at IES is getting attention and the quotes from across the ideological spectrum.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Interesting new work on cognitive skills and aging ("use it or lose it sounds right"!: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 👇

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

3) Candidates receiving more feedback were more likely to obtain teaching positions in the schools in which they completed their student teaching. 4/n

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