Felicitaciones Maria Paola Sevilla, Paola Bordon y Fernanda Ramirez-Espinoza!

1/ New paper available online at the Economics of Education Review! Maria Paola Sevilla, Paola Bordon, and yours truly investigate the impact of having a female teacher 👩‍🏫 on vocational high school (VTE) STEM students 👷‍♀️ Free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hKzc~1QC4gEo

Early view from JPAM: "The thin blue line in schools: New evidence on school-based policing across the U.S." by Lucy Sorensen, Montserrat Avila-Acosta, John Engberg, Shawn Bushway. doi.org/10.1002/pam.22…

New (forthcoming) paper alert! Transportation Logics: How Charter School Leaders Make Choices about Student Transportation | American Journal of Education journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… W/co-author extraordinaire Ayesha Hashim @nwea UCSB Gevirtz School (1/5)

🚨 New in Educational Studies (CEDS) – Jasmine Alvarado and I examine how neighborhood and school gentrification processes shape parents' experiences in and connections to local public schools. Thread to come! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Representation is said to matter, but I didn't see myself in the world around me growing up. Whom did I see? With whom was I supposed to identify? What about my children? And what about in children's books? What do children see? How to measure it? (a thread 🧵👇🏾) 1/n

🙋‍♂️ Hi #EconTwitter #PsychTwitter #EdTwitter friends! 📢 Please, RT to help me disseminate our information session for the Human Development Research & Policy MA at NYU Steinhardt NYU Steinhardt Applied Psychology TOMORROW (Sep 22) at 9am EST ✍️ Sign up at: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/human-d… 🙏 Thank you!

The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) "Social Exclusion and Ethnic Segregation in Schools: The Role of Teachers' Ethnic Prejudice" co-authored by Sule Alan, Enes Duysak, Elif Kubilay, and Ipek Mumcu: direct.mit.edu/rest/article/1…

Many are skeptical that capital spending matters for students. Summary of older papers shows it does aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… However, this impressive new study by Barbara Biasi and others provides compelling evidence of benefits for low-income kids. insights.som.yale.edu/insights/does-…

Excited to present some work on teacher motivation in a panel on teacher supply, diversity, and quality tomorrow at APPAM! Also grateful to present alongside Andrew Bacher-Hicks Melanie Rucinski Francisco Lagos Come check us out in Embassy G at 10:15!

Does learning about the amount of segregation in their local school district affect parents’ attitudes and policy preferences? In a new article in Soc. of Education (with Sam Trejo), we use a survey experiment to find out. (spoiler alert: it does not) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Delighted that this project with Claire Mackevicius is out in print. It is a good-faith effort to present the facts, and even school-spending skeptics agree with the conclusions. We believe it can help the policy conversation evolve. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Estudio del BID revela: El SAE en Chile tiene limitado efecto en la segregación.Familias desfavorecidas buscan en las escuelas: menos violencia y discriminación, más autoeficacia,valores religiosos, deportes,nombres extranjeros y menos calidad académica publications.iadb.org/en/navigating-…

So many great UMD and MEP students, postdocs, and faculty are presenting at AEFP next week! Check out our presentation schedule below.👇 You won't want to miss them! Jing Liu David Blazar Meghan Comstock Francisco Lagos Tifanee McCaskill (she/her) Rolonda L. Payne, EdD just to name a few!

New paper from David Blazar Wenjing Gao Dr. Ramon Goings and colleagues identifies the importance of race-conscious policies for addressing racial disparities in teaching. docs.iza.org/dp16928.pdf

💫Today we launch the Segregation Explorer!💫 Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991. edopportunity.org/segregation

We've been working on papers and policy briefs related to the teacher workforce, educational equity and access, and the Blueprint for Maryland's Future that have implications relevant for Maryland policymakers/practitioners. Find them on our website! 👇 education.umd.edu/research/cente…

New paper alert! Disparate Pathways: Understanding Racial Disparities in Teaching, with Max Anthenelli, Wenjing Gao Dr. Ramon Goings & Seth Gershenson Maryland Equity Project Full paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-945, docs.iza.org/dp16928.pdf Shorter research brief: tinyurl.com/53sxjsnr

Our team + Francisco Lagos has another new paper that shows positive effects of a high school pathway program (on HS grad, college enroll, teaching, and wages), which I will write a thread about separately. Full paper: docs.iza.org/dp16983.pdf Research brief: tinyurl.com/3bds2w9s

Do Grow-Your-Own (GYO) Programs Work? We think so and provide causal evidence from a high school pathway program in MD called the Teacher Academy of Maryland (TAM) Wenjing Gao Seth Gershenson Dr. Ramon Goings Francisco Lagos Maryland Equity Project docs.iza.org/dp16983.pdf edworkingpapers.com/ai24-958