It's that time--AEFP elections! There is a great slate of candidates (you really can't go wrong here) but I'd love your vote for Board of Directors.

Teacher Shortages: A Framework for Understanding & Predicting Vacancies is out in EEPA Editors ! Chris Candelaria Alvin Christian Matthew A. Kraft & I develop & test a framework for understanding how tchr shortages vary across subject schs regions & states🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.31…

🚨New paper in The JHR on the political economy of teacher strikes! Matthew A. Kraft & I find that teacher strikes publicly signal the need for change in education. Strikes cause big increases in education ads in campaigns & in school spending. 🧵 tinyurl.com/5n8rewrw

Check out CBS Daily Report story mentioning work on teacher shortages and turnover by myself Matthew A. Kraft Melissa Arnold Lyon (Mimi) Tuan D. Nguyen, @edutuan.bsky.social Danielle Sanderson Edwards and a few others. Apologies to scholars that missed! [21:00] youtube.com/live/oX7sbRFy7…

Congratulations to Anna Moyer who was selected by her peers in Peabody College's PhD program in Leadership & Policy Studies as the winner of the 2024 Josh Bleiberg Award for Service to the Department! (1/2)

Just unreasonably happy Claire has launched this series. I do not finish my dissertation without Gourmet Makes stress breaks. 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=Qd0TQe…

State Takeovers of School Districts Still Happen. New Research Questions Their Value edweek.org/leadership/sta… Melissa Arnold Lyon (Mimi) Josh Bleiberg

Just announced: Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher will be the next Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of the Pitt School of Education! Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher Learn more about our new dean: bit.ly/3JQT7h2

Wonderful news! 🎉🎉

Excited to see this paper with Dan Goldhaber and Grace Falken out in EEPA Editors this week! We think that teacher job postings are an excellent new source of data for understanding demand for teachers and (in)equity in the teacher labor market.

Comparing Teacher Turnover Intentions to Actual Turnover: Cautions and Lessons for the Field journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.310… "We advise that surveys continue to capture intention as it provides meaningful information, but we recommend intention not be used as proxy for turnover."

Home ownership is full of surprises. But nothing prepared me for the time and effort that scammers will put into creating deceptive letters “from our mortgage provider”. I don’t think I’ve gotten tricked yet…

What are the effects on compensation? Strikes cause avg teacher salaries and benefits to increase by ~$10,000/per teacher (8%) after 5 yrs. Big increases begin in yr 3 post-strike. $$ is from new revenues, not reallocations 7/

🚨Happy to share this new WP: The Causes & Consequences of U.S. Teacher Strikes ICYMI: check out Melissa Arnold Lyon (Mimi) & my companion paper at The JHR Teacher Strikes as Public Signals: jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/… Early open access version: edworkingpapers.com/ai21-482

Excited to share our paper on tutoring at scale w/ Matthew A. Kraft & @marisacannata ! My thoughts on our findings a 🧵: 1/11 edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1030

Super-excited to get started on this project and to work with this amazing research team and district partners!

Got questions about the possibilities and constraints of #FacultyClusterHiring towards greater racial equity? Us too! Roman Liera (he/him/his) Aireale J. Rodgers, PhD and I received a two-year grant from Sloan Foundation to dive into this issue. Learn more! bit.ly/FCHresearch Pitt School of Education