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Josh Bleiberg

@joshbleiberg.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Ed Policy and Quantitative Methods at the University of Pittsburgh. I study accountability, education politics, teacher labor markets, and Philly sports. www.JoshBleiberg.com

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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 04/08/2026
I hope state & district leaders will find the guidance in @joshbleiberg.bsky.social & my policy brief helpful for minimizing the harm of teacher layoffs "The Inequitable Effects of Teacher Layoffs: What We Know and Can Do" @aefpweb.bsky.social @efpjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
😳😎https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49440164/lebron-chooses-76ers-sign-2-year-8-million-contract
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LeBron chooses 76ers, will sign 2-year, $8 million contract
LeBron James is signing with the 76ers on a two-year, $8 million deal with a player option, Klutch Sports Group CEO Rich Paul told ESPN's Shams Charania.
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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 10/07/2026
If you have experience as an educator in any capacity and love working with data, I hope you'll consider applying. We start reviewing applications on Monday.
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Beth Schueler @bethschueler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We have now made our data tracking state takeovers of school districts public. Please download and use it if helpful for your work! pedl.stanford.edu/data-tools Thanks to Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social for much of the heavy lifting.
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Data & Tools
Data on State Takeovers of School DistrictsData tracking state takeovers of school districts from the first one in 1988 through the 2017-18 school year, in Excel format available for download here:
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Josh Bleiberg Receives National NAEd/Spencer Fellowship - University of Pittsburgh School of Education
During the prestigious national fellowship, he will study education policy issues related to state school district takeovers.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Victory! This would be a wild team. www.82-0.com/share?id=ANW...
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82-0 — Can Your All-Time NBA Roster Go Undefeated?
Draft an all-time NBA team and simulate an 82-game undefeated season. Build your roster, beat the algorithm, share your record.
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Teachers College Record @tcrecord.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
In their new book, Dr. Di Carlo and Dr. Baker "provide a comprehensive overview of education finance and forge new ground by exploring how racial segregation interacts with K12 school funding systems." Read Dr. Shao and Dr. @joshbleiberg.bsky.social 's full review here: bit.ly/49T3NZZ
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I am feeling very grateful to share that I have been awarded the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship! ☺️ It is humbling to receive this recognition. I am deeply appreciative of the grant’s support of my research on the causes of state takeover. naeducation.org/current-naed...
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Current NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows - National Academy of Education
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Glad to see Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will be here to stay! www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to continue publishing after sale to nonprofit media group
Toledo, Ohio-based Block Communications Inc. is selling the Post-Gazette assets to the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, publisher of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Banner.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I have a new paper on the effects of the NCLB waivers! The paper found its niche by estimating the effect of waivers in each state across the country. Similar to what others have found, the waivers caused a small decrease in student achievement. doi.org/10.1177/0895...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thread in the am but if you want the main takeaway: The 2024 Digest of Education Statistics (under the current administration) includes just 27 tables by the (Congressionally mandated) deadline—far fewer than the nearly 270, on average, published in prior years www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
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The U.S. Department of Education is far behind on producing key statistics | Brookings
Federal education data releases have slowed dramatically, with major gaps in the 2024 Digest and Condition of Education report.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Very cool paper! Looking forward to giving it a close read.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
What do you call the hurricane of emotions that occurs when you are enjoying Andor, super annoyed by the monopoly go ads, but also aren't willing to upgrade your Disney+ subscription?
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Here's one of my best friends (who, before being illegally fired, was the data scientist at NEH) showing just how much money NEH could distribute back out to US taxpayers based on their lifetime contributions. Get ready to make it rain with thousands of pennies y'all!
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Just Education Policy Institute @justedpolicy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an *in-person* Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.
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Just Education Policy
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Beth Schueler @bethschueler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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The Unofficial List of Ed Policy Orgs for Job/Internship Seekers
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Practice and Undergraduate Program Coordinator. I'm on the search committee and am more than happy to answer questions. cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
COOPER DEJEAN IS NOT A SAFETY!!
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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a bald man with a beard is wearing a nfl jersey
ALT: a bald man with a beard is wearing a nfl jersey
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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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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
FLY EAGLES FLY
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a football player with the number 9 on his back is raising his arms in the air during a game .
Alt: Nick Foles raising his arms in the air during a game .
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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Happy to share that our paper on the relationship between teacher intentions and teacher turnover behavior is now published at Education Finance and Policy. (with @edutuan.bsky.social @alexmoran.bsky.social Katharine Strunk, and Jason Burns). direct.mit.edu/edfp/article... 1/5
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Should I Stay or Should I Go (Later)? Teacher Intentions and Turnover in Low-Performing Schools and Districts before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract. Teacher turnover is a perennial concern, especially in low-performing, high-poverty schools. While districts and schools may try to anticipate and mitigate turnover by surveying teachers abo...
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
E A G L E S
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a man with a beard is talking into a microphone on a sports field .
ALT: a man with a beard is talking into a microphone on a sports field .
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I actually used the complementary access provided to me by a publisher in exchange for reviewing to find an article that was not accessible through my university. Achievement unlocked?
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Tuan D. Nguyen, Ph.D. @edutuan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
**Update on teacher staffing challenges 24-25** It has taken a while, but @ChanhLam202 and I have updated our website teachershortages.com. We find there are at least 49,800 vacant positions and 400,000 underqual in 24-25 compared to 55,000 and 270,000 last year
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Number 13: Bitcoin for cats, invest money simply by owning a cat
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits
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Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Had a wonderful night with the education policy #APPAM2024 crowd. If we didn’t get a chance to connect say hi tomorrow! At 145 I’ll be a part of an awesome session on Grow Your Own teacher recruitment efforts @drdsedwards.bsky.social @joshbleiberg.bsky.social @matthewakraft.bsky.social and more!
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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/...
Screenshot of the top of the article. Title is Racial Category Usage in Education Research: Examining the Publications from AERA Journals. Authors are Dominique J Baker, Karly S Ford, Samantha Viano, and Marc P Johnston-Guerrero. Abstract reads: How scholars name different racial groups has powerful salience for understanding what researchers study. We explored how education researchers used racial terminology in recently published high-profile peer-reviewed studies. Our sample included 1,427 original empirical studies published in the nonreview AERA journals from 2009 to 2019. We found that two thirds of articles used at least one racial category term, with an increase from about half to almost three quarters of published studies between 2009 and 2019. Other trends include the increasing popularity of the term Black, the emergence of gender-expansive terms such as Latinx, the popularity of the term Hispanic in quantitative studies, and the paucity of studies with terms connoting missing race data or including terms describing Indigenous and multiracial peoples.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
There's so many familiar faces here! I feel pressure to create content 😂. Pic of the doggo is the best I can do.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Interesting research about state takeover in Central Falls that began 33 years ago. www.centralfallsri.gov/education
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Office of Education Strategy
Welcome to the Central Falls Office of Education Strategy A Message from Mayor Rivera
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Pro baseball watching tip for any PA based Phillies fans. If you listen to the radio audio from mlb.tv there is not a single political ad. It syncs up pretty well with the tv broadcast. Also go phils! #redoctober
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,110,393!
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
How State Takeovers of School Districts Affect Education Finance, 1990 to 2019 by @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @joshbleiberg.bsky.social @bethschueler.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...
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How State Takeovers of School Districts Affect Education Finance, 1990 to 2019
Abstract. State takeovers of school districts—a form of political centralization that shifts decision-making power from locally elected leaders to the state—have increased over time, often with the pu...
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
This was my old job? Weird to be recruited for your last position, but it was a great gig. Feel free to reach out if you have Qs. jenniejohnson.com/job?id=c8a0c...
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
I appreciate the opportunity to discuss the HISD state takeover and research from @bethschueler.bsky.social @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social and myself on ABC News. abcnews.go.com/US/houston-c...
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Houston community, teachers not happy after first year of state supervision of schools
Evaluating the performance of the Texas largest school district in its first year under state control.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Just unreasonably happy Claire has launched this series. I do not finish my dissertation without Gourmet Makes stress breaks. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd0T...
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I Tried Making Homemade Drumsticks | Claire Recreates
I Tried Making Homemade Drumsticks | Claire RecreatesIn her exciting new YouTube series, "Claire Recreates," Claire Saffitz tries to recreate beloved childho...
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Check out CBS Daily Report story mentioning work on teacher shortages and turnover by myself @MatthewAKraft @MimiArnoldLyon @edu_tuan @drdsedwards and a few others. Apologies to scholars that missed! [21:00] www.youtube.com/live/oX7sbRF...
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Trump trial testimony on “catch and kill,” FTC bans noncompetes, more | The Daily Report
Ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified at former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial about the use of “catch and kill” to bury st...
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Just an FYI for anyone new to Pittsburgh. Jordan Tax Services is the company that runs local tax collection in Pittsburgh and is not a scam. It has very strong scam energy.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Yeah!! Congratulations!
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Walt Ecton @waltecton.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Some personal news - I'm very proud to share that I will be joining the faculty in the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education starting this summer.
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Chris Bennett @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Fascinating new Chronicle piece about the career choices of new Ph.D.s based on data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates. 1/ www.chronicle.com/article/this...
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This Is Where New Ph.D.s Find Jobs
Increasingly, those jobs are in industry.
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Genuinely can't think of a worse eagles performance that I've seen...
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Great job here that will consider ed policy folks. I am not on the committee, but would be happy to answer questions about Pittsburgh, which is excellent. t.co/kU1xmj4wSd
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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Yeah new pandas! 😊 time.com/6336154/us-n...
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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Heading to Atlanta for APPAM? I have two ed policy sessions that I am pumped for! Test-Based Accountability - Thursday, 1:45-3:15, Courtland (LL3) with @joshbleiberg.bsky.social @psaenz.bsky.social Learning or Lockdown? - Saturday, 3:30-5, Baker (LL3) with @lucy-sorensen.bsky.social
On the Margin: Who Receives a Juvenile Referral in School and What Effect Does It Have?
Andrea Headley, Georgetown University, Lucy Sorensen, University at Albany, State University of New York and Stephen Holt, University at Albany

The Consequences of Sibling Criminal Justice Contact for Parental Involvement in Schooling
Garrett Baker, Duke University

The School-As-Prison Pipeline: A Typology of Carceral Practices in Schools
Nalette Brodnax, Georgetown University

The Prison Industrial Complex Goes to School: School Security Measures and Teacher, Principal, and School-Level Outcomes
Samantha Viano1, Benjamin W. Fisher2, John H. Boman, IV3, Thomas J. Mowen3, Alex O. Widdowson4, Aishia A. Brown4 and Kristina N. LaVenia3, (1)George Mason University, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, (3)Bowling Green State University, (4)University of LouisvilleBalancing Federalism: School Accountability from NCLB to Essa
Eric Hanushek1, Patricia Saenz-Armstrong2 and Alejandra Salazar1, (1)Stanford University, (2)NCTQ

Designing School Accountability Systems in a Pandemic: Lessons from the NCLB Waivers
Joshua Bleiberg, University of Pittsburgh

Has High School Achievement Really Been Falling? the Role of Rising High School Graduation Rates and Compositional Effects in the NAEP
Douglas Harris1, C. Kirabo Jackson2 and Marco Pariguana1, (1)Tulane University, (2)Northwestern University

The Impact of Reducing High School Graduation Requirements on State Graduation Rates
Samantha Viano, George Mason University
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