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Albert Shanker Institute
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If I hear another f--ng interview about how the long run learning loss which started pre-covid (esp in reading) is probably caused by social media and failure to implement Science of Reading, while totally ignoring the post-recession great disinvestment - for which we already have causal evidence...
Bruce D. Baker
We've also uploaded the latest version of our District Cost Database, which provides adequacy estimates for about 12,000 school districts between 2009-2023. You can check out your district's results with our visualization tool (or download the full dataset). schoolfinancedata.org/visualizatio...
The School Finance Indicators Database has a new website! schoolfinancedata.org
Albert Shanker Institute
Albert Shanker Institute
TODAY, 5/17 @ 5:30PM 📖 Educators, this conversation matters. Join @rweingarten.bsky.social & J.Kozol for an @aft.org Book Club event focused on equity, access, & the role of schools in shaping democracy. Save your spot: https://sharemylesson.com/webinars/aft-book-club-conversation-jonathan-kozol 👩🏫
New: Since DOGE cut the statistical arm of the Education Department, basic facts about American schools are no longer readily available.
Some of these data points can be found elsewhere but are now harder to track down. Others simply don't exist anymore.
www.chalkbeat.org/2026/05/07/e...
New WP: NAEP and State tests often disagree about educational progress. How much? What do we do? We show how to use these "two watches" to improve trend measurement whenever we have multiple trends.
Our paper, including methods underlying our new SEDA/EOP data: edopportunity.org/papers/two_w...
