Covid left an indelible mark on education. While we’ve seen some recovery progress, many students, especially those in special populations, still struggle. Our 2024 #StateoftheStudent report outlines reforms & proven methods to help all students. Read on: bit.ly/3B0mwnD

Great new work from Andrew Camp et al. on 4DSW impacts on teacher retention in MO, finding similar null effects as Emma Dewil & I found in CO. Come to our session at APPAM with Aaron Ainsworth and Kate Barnes to discuss all the new 4DSW findings!

The cat's out of the bag! I'm super pleased (and daunted) to announce that CALDER Center is launching a new IES Research funded center, "CALDER-R&R", focused on teacher recruitment & retention. A short (sort of)🧵 1/n

I think ESSER funds helped with student achievement, but the related data collection (or lack thereof) represents a real missed opportunity to learn. the74million.org/article/esser-…

Super cool update from Annenberg Institute at Brown and the #EdExchange team - highly recommend this resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers!

Devastating indeed. TIMSS scores show pandemic drops for US students in math, and suggest them in science. The news is worse if we zoom out a bit & look at the lowest performers. My thoughts at AEIdeas

Many thanks to the team Sargent College, Boston University for this beautiful docuseries and for being crazy enough to film my dad biking and sailing! Most importantly, thank you for the kindness, support, and community you have provided my dad and so many others living with aphasia 💙

Sarah Cohodes Astrid Pineda Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Teachers College, Columbia University And finally, taking the grand prize, the best research study of 2024 goes to a team of a dozen scholars for "Impacts of Academic Recovery Interventions on Student Achievement in 2022-23" caldercenter.org/publications/i… CALDER Center Harvard CEPR Mike DeArmond Dan Goldhaber Elise Dizon-Ross NWEA

New results from "The Nation's Report Card" just dropped and they are pretty bad. I got a sneak peek as a member of IES’s Standing Committee, so I had an extra day or so to ruminate about them. A few thoughts 👇 1/n

“On a positive note, while many big-city districts made important gains in fourth-grade math with their economically disadvantaged students, a handful of districts did exceptionally well, including….Guilford County Schools…” npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-…

Hope is not a strategy. My new commentary in The 74 the74million.org/article/the-ne…

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, Emily Morton, Dan Goldhaber, & Kevin Mahnken. Register now: bit.ly/3En3lGk

A Statement from Jessica Heppen, AIR President & CEO: “Like many organizations, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) has had to make difficult decisions in response to recent federal funding cuts, including reducing our workforce by 18%. (1/4)

Excited to share I’m returning to NWEA as a Lead Research Scientist on the RPP team, supporting districts in answering policy-relevant questions using MAP Growth data! Grateful to my CALDER Center colleagues for 2 wonderful years of collaboration (much of which will continue)!