A Chalkboard piece on the resurgence of teacher strikes and their effects. The author, Melissa Lyon, reports her working paper with Leslie Finger and Hyesang Noh finding strikes reduce Republican turnout and vote share.
A Chalkboard piece on school-based referrals to the juvenile justice system. The authors present their study of North Carolina linked school and court records, by Lucy Sorensen and colleagues.
A Chalkboard piece on trends in the STEM teacher workforce in high-need schools. The authors summarize their study using 30 years of national teacher survey data.
A Chalkboard piece on measuring high school performance beyond GPA. The authors describe their EdWorkingPaper using item response theory on Delaware transcript data to account for course difficulty.
A Chalkboard piece on the future of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. It cites Rachel Perera's EdWorkingPaper on federal civil rights enforcement for the finding that most complaints lead to no reforms.
A Chalkboard piece on how policies targeting LGBTQ+ students affect LGBTQ+ teachers. It discusses and links to the RAND working paper estimating the prevalence of LGBTQ+ teachers, noting its data limitations.
A Chalkboard piece by Francisco Santelli of the Annenberg Institute on teacher commutes in Nashville. It summarizes his study with Jason Grissom finding longer commutes predict transfers, exits and lower ratings.
A Chalkboard analysis of the proposed federal Educational Choice for Children Act. It links to the Fontana and Jennings EdWorkingPaper on Iowa ESAs to support the concern that such programs lead private schools to raise tuition.
A Chalkboard piece making the labor-market case for public early childhood education. It describes the study by Chloe Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle and Riley Wilson on full-day kindergarten expansions and parents' employment.
A Chalkboard piece on who uses college admissions test prep and its effectiveness. It links to the EdWorkingPaper on the rise of private tutoring centers for their growth and concentration in affluent areas.