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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Qual and mixed methods folks should apply! This person will work directly with Jeremy on the qual side and will also have the opportunity collaborate with me and my team at FSU on both reports and mixed methods academic papers.

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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our amazing colleague Danny Moraguez died last month: lnkd.in/eYag-N6q Danny was a brilliant scholar who was committed to social justice and educational equity. @anniewoff.bsky.social, @waltecton.bsky.social, and I couldn't have been luckier to have Danny in our hiring cohort. 1/3

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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There's a lot going on in the world right now, but in some good news: @alexmoran.bsky.social defended his dissertation today! Alex is such a smart, thoughtful ed policy researcher and the field is beyond lucky to have him. I hope I did a better job advising than I did taking this photo.

Alex smiling in front of his dissertation intro slide, which says, "Three Essays on Strengthening the Teacher Workforce"

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Walt Ecton @waltecton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Please share this position with your networks! You'll get to work with me, @harbatkat.bsky.social, Christine Mokher, Stacey Rutledge, & a great team at the U of Michigan, Florida State U, and the CTE Research Network. Please reach out w/questions - ecton@umich.edu!🧵 careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Laura Rogers @laurarogers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

New from Jen Darling-Aduana, @dave-woo.bsky.social, and me: We observed lessons in an online charter school to understand instructional quality. Despite the school's marketing as an innovative, tailored alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar publics, teachers' instruction rarely reflected this.

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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 29/01/2025

New from me in Education Finance & Policy: Pandemic-Era School Staff Shortages: Evidence from Unfilled Position Data in Illinois doi.org/10.1162/edfp...

Article abstract reading "Concerns about school staff shortages are longstanding. However, data on shortages are limited, dated, and rare for non-teaching staff. I use administrative data on unfilled certificated positions in Illinois public schools from the fall of 2022 to paint a detailed picture of shortages across teaching, administrative, and other roles, between districts, and between schools. Teacher and administrator shortage rates are low on average, but shortages of other staff - mostly paraprofessionals - are more severe. However, staff-to-student ratios have increased recently for all staff types. Shortages vary substantially between schools within districts and across urbanicity, grade level, and student characteristics, often in ways that likely exacerbate inequities."

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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🚨I am psyched to share a new working paper from @edutuan.bsky.social & myself 🚨. We show how to estimate turnover & net-negative job loss (think ~shortages) with public data for K12 schools by county from 2000 to present, by race, ethnicity, educ attainment & gender. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1135 🧵

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Leveraging Quarterly Workforce Indicators to Analyze Teacher Labor Market Dynamics: Inequitable Trends in Educator Turnover

Educator labor markets vary considerably across the country and can change quickly during recessions. We use data from the Quality Workforce Indicators (QWI) on educators in Elementary and Secondary S...

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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So excited that this work is finally published in Exceptional Children! I loved working on this study of the paraeducator workforce with @roddy-theobald.bsky.social @lizbettini.bsky.social and @natejones.bsky.social. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Education scholars heading to #APPAM2024 - @christocleve.bsky.social and I are organizing an informal happy hour meet up Thursday night 11/21 at The Brass Tap, 7pm! Would love to reconnect with folks while we're all together next week. Please amplify and feel free to invite others!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Oh yay, this paper is finally out at AERA Open! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

🚨 Out now in Ed Researcher @aeraedresearch.bsky.social a new study with @bakerdphd.bsky.social Karly Ford&Marc Johnston-Guerrero 🚨 We coded a census of original research from AERA journals (2009-19) to surface hidden patterns in authors use racial terminology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... 1/N

Educational research commonly uses racial terminology but with little understanding of racial classification patterns across the field. In this study, we surface the use of racial terminology using a census of original research published in American Educational Research Association journals between 2009 and 2019. We do so as an ethical quantification exercise, seeking to further social justice goals by encouraging scholarship on racial terminology in educational research. Using latent class analysis, we identify six classes of research ranging from about a third of articles that use almost no racial terminology to an eighth of articles that use terminology extensively. More recently published articles are more likely to be part of classes with extensive or narrow racial terminology usage and less likely to be in classes that are absent racial terminology. Qualitative research is more likely to use extensive racial terminology, and quantitative research is more likely to be absent of or

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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

New from me, Katharine Strunk, and Aliyah McIlwain in Econ of Ed: Using a variety of data sources, we show that schools and districts slated for turnaround before the pandemic experienced some of the pandemic's most harmful effects. Ungated: authors.elsevier.com/a/1h%7E-k%7E...

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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

We (EPIC) have a new report today on MI's Partnership schools and districts--those identified for additional supports and accountability measures under the state's turnaround policy. The report focused on staffing challenges and resulting consequences during 2022-23. epicedpolicy.org/human-capita...

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Education Policy Innovation Collaborative | Human Capital Challenges in Round 4 Partnership District...

Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, a research center devoted to rigorous evidence about education policy. Producing research with consequence

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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

New Brookings Chalkboard post published with @bethschueler.bsky.social & @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social asking the question, Do state takeovers of school districts work? www.brookings.edu/articles/do-...

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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

The AIR team is doing super-interesting work on accountability system design!

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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

We have a new post for Brookings on teacher intentions and actual turnover! Most teachers stay after 1 yr regardless of expressed intent--but intent becomes increasingly predictive over a 3-year period. www.brookings.edu/articles/the... Based on our working paper at edworkingpapers.com/ai23-815

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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

From me & @betsyjwolf.bsky.social! We show that states can offset loss of stability in growth measures by using multiple years of data for school ratings. Also: growth generates more equitable ratings than proficiency--but still disproportionately penalizes high-poverty, high-URM schools.

Scatterplots of school rating percentiles in year t and t+1 using different weights on growth vs. proficiency and using 1 vs. 3 years of data to generate percentiles. Shows that year-to-year correlations are stronger for proficiency, as expected, but the school rating that weights growth more heavily and uses 3 years of data is as stable as the rating that weights proficiency more heavily using 1 year of data.

Bar graph with four panels, each representing a different potential identification rule for low-performing schools. Bars represent 3 quantiles of school poverty (lowest, middle, and highest poverty schools) over 3 possible weighting schemes for school ratings, with 1 being the modal state approach under ESSA, another a weighting scheme that weights proficiency more heavily, and a third that weights growth more heavily. Shows that across all rules and weighting schemes, the highest poverty schools are disproportionately identified in the bottom 5%. But the disparity is largest for the measure that weights proficiency most heavily.

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Feels about time for an introduction! I am an Assistant Professor at George Mason University where I teach aspiring educational leaders & researchers. I conduct research on school security, school improvement, high school graduation policies, and racial inequality (when I am not watching reality TV)

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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

We have an assistant professor position open in education policy at Florida State, with a focus on teaching in the EdD program. Info below, and I'd be very happy to chat with anyone who has questions about the department, FSU, or anything else you might be wondering about! bit.ly/3rnsk6n

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Hello! Consider this an intro for the new space: I'm an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State, I do research on graduate education, mentoring, and higher ed structures that (disparately) shape students' trajectories - largely focusing on STEM. Also: I love coffee & traveling.

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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Hi everyone! I'm an assistant professor of education policy and evaluation at FSU. My work focuses on policies related to educational equity, with a particular focus on teachers, teacher labor markets, and school accountability and reform. Sometimes I post about that stuff! Also: cats, Stata

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