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Tuan D. Nguyen, Ph.D. @edutuan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gone for a while, but a few things to share: 1. Ending Teacher Shortages book shorturl.at/ghvOU 2. Educator Recruitment Retention & Effectiveness Center teacherworkforce.com 3. Nowcasting teacher turnover 4. Why Teachers Matter doc (in production) shorturl.at/b45E4

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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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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 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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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

Special thanks are due to my mentors Jason Grissom, Matt Kraft, and Matt Springer. This work would not have been possible without their support.

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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

It is a privilege to secure one of the few available sources of funding for an education politics focused project. I was so excited that I began working on the project as soon as the grades were submitted!

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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 · 25/01/2026

At this point I’m in active denial about my “to read” list 😂

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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Publishing this paper has been a journey. It started as a chapter in my dissertation and has changed considerably since then. The reviews greatly improved this manuscript by refocusing me on the evergreen lessons for accountability systems.

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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I have long hypothesized that the rare contexts in which accountability works are attributable to resources rather than policy. This paper falls short of proving that point, but I have some future work that focuses on this question.

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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The more important contribution (at least for me) is the examination of heterogeneity across states. The waivers had a positive effect in 14 states. Half of the variation in achievement effects is explained by federal per-pupil education funding.

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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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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Congrats Matt! Beyond well-deserved!

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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 · 30/01/2025

It's an amazing dataset. Thanks for your work on it!

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

We hope this paper opens the door to other researchers who want to explore related research questions! Instructions for accessing the API are here (www.census.gov/data/develop...) and there’s a R package for accessing the API as well (tidyqwi). 7/7

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Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) (Time Series: 1990 - present)

The QWI are a set of 32 economic indicators including employment, job creation/destruction, wages, hires, and other measures of employment flows.

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

We also explore labor market trends by educator characteristics (e.g., race, ethnicity, educational attainment) and show that the education labor market is weaker for educators who are non-White and did not graduate college. Finally, we briefly explore variation in pandemic local labor markets. 6/7

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

Of course, education labor market measures typically compare a specific school year to the prior school year. We show that our procedure using QWI data produces labor market measures of turnover and net-negative job loss that are strongly correlated with state data (R>0.73). 5/7

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

BTW please send me related papers so that I can cite them. QWI measures are created using changes in quarter-to-quarter counts. For example, job leavers are the number of employees who worked at a specific school district in 2024 Q1 and then did not in 2024 Q2. 4/7

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

Our objectives with this paper are to (1) hype up the QWI dataset to everyone studying teacher/education labor markets and (2) to develop school year level measures that we create using the quarter level QWI data. There are shockingly few examples of K12 labor market research that uses the QWI. 3/7

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

In my view the QWI is a highly under used tool created by Census Bureau using worker level unemployment insurance data. I suspect this is because the most useful data is available only through the API and the QWI’s website obscures the depth/breadth of the publicly available data. 2/7

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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

I hope we can agree that everyone is a winner when Dan Snyder is upset.

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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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Josh Bleiberg @joshbleiberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I do the same! Glad it's helpful! Hope it finished running quickly.

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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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