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Big P and Little P Politics: Contemporary and Enduring Challenges for K-12 School Board Members
School board service has become more complex in the current era of heightened partisan polarization and the nationalization of education. This mixed-methods paper draws on interviews with and a statewide survey of board members in California, and the theory of emotional labor. We explore how members experience contemporary national issues (“Big P Politics”), and everyday challenges of managing… more →
Aligned Pathways, Unequal Earnings: Gendered Transitions from Community College to Work
States increasingly use financial aid policy to steer students into designated high-demand workforce fields, yet evidence on whether these fields offer stronger labor-market pathways remains limited. We study Virginia's Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3) initiative, which provides tuition-free community college to income-eligible students in high-demand workforce areas. Using linked… more →
Building the STEM Talent Pipeline: The Impact of Project Lead the Way
Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is an applied STEM Career Technical Education program that has been adopted widely across the country. Using data from Missouri, we investigate the impact of PLTW course expansion on program participation and early post-secondary outcomes overall and by gender. Our identification strategies rely on within-school between-cohort variation in PLTW course availability,… more →
Facilitating Evidence-Based Instructional Coaching With Automated Feedback on Teacher Discourse
Instructional coaching often aims to ground teacher professional learning in classroom evidence, yet it is labor-intensive for coaches to obtain and curate such evidence. This study explores possibilities for applying an automated feedback tool to classroom recordings in order to support evidence-based reflection in coaching. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 9 coaches and coded 25… more →
Variation in Post-Pandemic Postsecondary Transitions across Academic Subgroups
We examine how trends in postsecondary readiness and enrollment from pre- to post-pandemic differ across student subgroups defined by pre-pandemic (8th grade) achievement levels. Using individual-level data from North Carolina and interrupted time series approaches, we find that students with high baseline achievement became less likely to apply to and enroll in a four-year college following… more →
The New Kid on the Tutoring Block: Definitions, Developments, and Future Directions for Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring
Human tutoring is among the most effective educational interventions, yet high costs and intensive resource demands make it difficult to provide broadly and at scale. We conceptualize this tension as an “iron triangle” of tradeoffs between effectiveness, affordability, and scalable reach. This essay examines how an emerging genre of tutoring, hybrid human-AI tutoring, reconfigures these… more →
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Centering Teachers in the AI Era
What happens when teachers are treated as professional decision-makers, not just end users of AI tools?
Watch the conversation about the future of the teaching profession in an AI-enabled education system, grounded in two recent EdWorkingPapers.