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Lindsey Kaler

@lindseykaler.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University | Ph.D. in Special Education from Boston University | (she/her) lindsey-kaler.com

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Presidential Essay: @aefpweb.bsky.social's Role in an Evidence-Informed Education Ecosystem via @efpjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...
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Presidential Essay: AEFP’s Role in an Evidence-Informed Education Ecosystem
Historically, the U.S. federal government has invested in education research as a public good, with the implicit assumption that such research can support more efficient and effective educational oppo...
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Andrew Camp @andrewmcamp.com · 15/04/2026
NEW PAPER: We study the effects of immigration policy on student attendance in 2025. Students born outside the U.S. were 2.2pp more likely to be absent after Jan 2025 (a 37% increase). That's ~2 extra missed days per semester. LINK: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1453 @annenberginstitute.bsky.social
Line graph showing monthly absence rates for the 2024-25 school year. Two lines track students born inside vs. outside the U.S. from September through May. Both groups follow similar patterns through the fall, but diverge sharply at a vertical dashed line marking the January 20th inauguration. After that point, foreign-born students' absence rates remain elevated while U.S.-born rates decline as expected, eliminating the pre-inauguration gap.
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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New working paper alert! Our team developed a web crawler to study the accessibility of information related to special education on school district websites in four states (MA, RI, IN, and FL). Read the full WP here: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1447 And check out Cam's thread below for more detail!
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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 08/04/2026
Friends - please help amplify and share in your networks. This small conference will convene multidisciplinary researchers w/ practitioners, non-profit organizers, & policymakers to share cutting-edge research on 🎓+🌎. We have only 25 spots left. Join us!
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Emily Penner @emilykpenner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Glad to see our work about special ed and gifted identification across the income distribution appear in this week's @chalkbeat.org
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Cam Arnzen @camarnzen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The first of my dissertation papers is officially out in @psjeditor.bsky.social! I started this paper in 2023, so I am happy it’s finally out! 🎉 I wrote about it in this post for the North Central College Political Science Bulletin!
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Dr. Arnzen's Research & Recent Publication on the Administrative Burdens of Voting
An introduction to some of my research and my new article out in Policy Studies Journal on how the "costs" of voting matter differently for individuals of different levels of education
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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Excited to share a new manuscript and policy brief, published in TESE!! This is one of my dissertation papers, co-authored with @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, in which we study turnover patterns among paraeducators in WA state. When do paras leave the workforce and what are risk factors for exiting?
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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
So exciting to see this study published! It’s a fantastic example of why it’s important to expand the scope of how we think about and study the education workforce. Check out Aaron’s thread below with a link to their paper!
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Andrew Camp @andrewmcamp.com · 22/01/2026
Evidence-based insights matter for public policy. This FREE conference is going to have a ton of great research on teacher working conditions, quality, and pipelines. If you're going to/can be in Arlington, VA on March 2nd then register to join us!!
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Roddy Theobald @roddy-theobald.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New @caldercenter.bsky.social working paper w/ @brbackes.bsky.social, @jecowan.bsky.social, & @cedr.bsky.social! We use MA data to explore the implications of the climate and diversity of students teachers' placement schools for outcomes of students of color. Paper & abstract ⬇️ tinyurl.com/4sxhtss8
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Andrew Bacher-Hicks @abacherhicks.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨New RFP Alert!🚨 @Arnold_Ventures Evidence & Evaluation team released just two new RFPs to support research evaluating the causal impacts of U.S. social programs and policies: bit.ly/4aXA43k A short 🧵on what we're prioritizing and what's new this cycle (1/n)
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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check out this awesome JMP by @john-fallon-econ.com!! Really interesting findings. John also does amazing work on the teacher workforce and anyone would be lucky to have him as a colleague! See his JMP thread below:
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David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi. Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Check out the TED Publication of the Year for 2025!
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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📉 Why did student achievement start declining before COVID? How are school enrollment patterns shifting five years after? Join us for our Nov 13 EdWorkingPapers webinar featuring James H. Wyckoff, @abbyfrancis.bsky.social, and @joshua-goodman.com edworkingpapers.com/webinar-series
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SPARC Center @sparccenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
💡Attending #SREE2025 this week? Join SPARC Center experts @lizbettini.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social for their session on Measuring and Strengthening the Special Education Teacher Workforce on Saturday, Oct 11 from 12-1:30 CT at Palmer House Hilton – Crystal.
Promotional graphic for the SREE 2025 session titled "Measuring and Strengthening the Special Education Teacher Workforce." Scheduled for October 11 at 12 PM CT at Palmer House Hilton – Crystal. Includes headshots of speakers Elizabeth Bettini and Allison Gilmour, both Co-Directors of the SPARC Center. The bottom features the SPARC logo with the tagline "The Special Educator Workforce: A Research Collaborative," and icons for Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Jo R. King @jo-r-king.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
First pub on the tenure track! 📣🎉 Stoked to see my work with Luis Rodriguez out in AERA-Open. We provide evidence regarding the distribution of different types police interventions in NYC public schools across school-level demographic characteristics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Overpoliced? A Descriptive Portrait of School-Based Targeted Police Interventions in New York City - Jo R. King, Luis A. Rodriguez, 2025
This study provides a descriptive analysis of police intervention as a response to student behavior in New York City public schools. We find that between the 20...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 30/09/2025
For grad students or postdocs out there: let me know if you'd like to present in my department's (Ed Policy, Org, & Leadership) Quantitative Working Group meeting Wednesday of next week (October 8) at 3pm Central time. Work at any stage is fine, it's very informal. I have a presenter gap this month.
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Roddy Theobald @roddy-theobald.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Really excited to have this paper out in the world! See Dan's thread below!
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SPARC Center @sparccenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Policy solutions can help stabilize and diversify the paraeducator workforce to improve #SpecialEducation outcomes. A recent paper by @lindseykaler.bsky.social and @roddy-theobald.bsky.social at @caldercenter.bsky.social examines turnover patterns in WA and offers suggestions for policymakers.
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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social‬. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: ‬ tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m 🧵 below:
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SPARC Center @sparccenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Our researchers are digging into questions about the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce. Recently, @lizbettini.bsky.social, @lindseykaler.bsky.social, @hannahmmathews.bsky.social,‬ Malavika Ragunathan & Katheryn Meyer explored teacher beliefs about students labeled with EBD.
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“Well, Those Students Have a Name:” Special Educators’ Beliefs About Students Labeled With Emotional/Behavioral Disorders | SPARC Center
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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🏫🌎 How do schools impact the environment? From energy use to food systems, schools have a substantial ecological footprint. Join the #SustainableED team on 7/15 at 1PM ET to explore how schools can reduce their impact & lead on sustainability. 📅 Register: buff.ly/2IrefK2
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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New pub alert! 🎉 Check out our new paper in EC, in which we use DisCrit to examine special educators' beliefs about students labeled with EBD. I loved working with @hannahmmathews.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, @katiekat.bsky.social, and Mal Ragunathan on this one! doi.org/10.1177/0014...
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“Well, Those Students Have a Name:” Special Educators’ Beliefs About Students Labeled With Emotional/Behavioral Disorders - Hannah Morris Mathews, Lindsey Kaler, Malavika Ragunathan, Elizabeth Bettini...
Teachers’ beliefs influence the educational experiences they provide for students with disabilities. Furthermore, beliefs are highly contextualized, necessitati...
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Andrew Camp @andrewmcamp.com · 09/06/2025
New working paper from me and a great group of coauthors: The Effects of the Four-Day School Week on Teacher Recruitment and Retention caldercenter.org/publications... Read on to see what's different about this vs. some of my prior work 🧵⬇️
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Nelson Brunsting @brunnc3.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Updated literature review on special education teachers' occupational wellbeing and burnout is published online! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... @lizbettini.bsky.social @michellecumming.bsky.social Excited to see the nascent intervention work prior research has catalyzed!
Figure titled "conceptualization of factors with strong empirical support for special educator wellbeing and burnout, 1979 to present. Figure includes working conditions (specifically, administrator support, planning time, and instructional grouping) predicting special education teachers' workload manageability, which in turn predicts stress, which in turn predicts burnout. This chain of special education teachers' workload-stress-burnout is moderated by their identity, characteristics, and experience as well as their affective responses to work stress. Teacher wellbeing/burnout, in turn, is associated with teacher outcomes, including teaching self-efficacy, evidence-based practice use, intervention fidelity, and intent to leave. All of these, in turn, predict student outcomes.
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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is an AWESOME webinar for anyone interested in learning about how to use state longitudinal data systems to study the special education teacher workforce! Researchers, doc students, state data folks - come join us!
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Kate Harris-Walls @k8harris.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My first First Author paper is out with @fchriscurran.bsky.social 🥳 This study examines the political, economic, and social factors influencing state adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) using an event history analysis. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YYPWZ...
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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! A study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @natejones.bsky.social‬, & @lizbettini.bsky.social. We find staff turnover matters for SWDs. Ungated WP & one pager: • Working paper: tinyurl.com/j3rykkp9 • One-pager: tinyurl.com/bddtzxtp
Abstract of CALDER working paper, Impacts of Staff Turnover on Test Scores for Students with and without Disabilities."
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 28/03/2025
Nice coverage of my recent work on school staff shortages from the UIUC News Bureau.//Staff shortages exceed those for teachers in many Illinois public schools news.illinois.edu/staff-shorta...
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Research in Special Education (RiSE) @rise-open-journal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Call for manuscripts for a special series in Research in Special Education -- Open Science Practices and the Early Career Researcher: A Push to Advance Special Education Research riseopenjournal.org/news/20/ A great opportunity for early career researchers!
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Call for Submissions for a Special Series for RiSE Open Science Practices and the Early Career Researcher: A Push to Advance Special Education Research
Research in Special Education (RiSE) is a Diamond Open Access journal promoting rigorous and high-quality scholarship that enhances the educational opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We ...
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CALDER Center @caldercenter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Five years later, what have we learned about student recovery & teacher labor markets since the pandemic? Join us for Session I at #CALDER2025 to hear the latest from Cory Koedel, @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @ermorton.bsky.social, @cedr.bsky.social, & Kevin Mahnken. Register here: bit.ly/3En3lGk
CALDER Research Conference 2025
Wednesday, March 12
Arlington, VA

Session I: 9:30 am - 11:15 am
COVID's Long Shadow, Five Years Later
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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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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 16/01/2025
I appreciate the nice write-up of some of my recent work by Sharita Forrest here at our News Bureau. news.illinois.edu/view/6367/97...
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Schools need to boost entry-level salaries to better compete for novice teachers, study says
Schools are not adjusting their pay scales in strategic ways to make their compensation more competitive with nearby school districts and help recruit new faculty members, University of Illinois Urb...
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Boston University Wheelock College @buwheelock.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Olivia Chi explains that we need to think about structural ways to shore up the teaching industry. Read More: spr.ly/63328aXdte @bostonglobe.com
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‘The pipelines are drying up’: Why teacher salaries are catastrophic for the profession - The Boston Globe
Over the past few decades, the economic rationale to become a K-12 teacher has collapsed.
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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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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So excited for all the work we're going to get to do with the SPARC Center over the next 5 years!! Stay tuned and follow us all for updates :)
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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Here's a quick thread. First, you can get the paper where we describe how we web scrape school district sites to get job postings in close real time here: bit.ly/3CKxkVj More 👇 1/n
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School District Job Postings and Staffing Challenges Throughout the Second School Year During the COVID-19 Pandemic | CALDER
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