Professor of Education and Economics. Former high school humanities teacher. Proud papa & volunteer soccer coach. Reading as much as I can about climate change. www.matthewakraft.com
Matthew A Kraft
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So excited to visit the University of Stavanger in Norway and present at the Synapse Lab tomorrow!
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First post linked below.
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Teacher union influence is waning.
In A Crowded Table, @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social, Sandy Frost Waldron, and Rebecca Jacobsen rank union strength across all fifty states and D.C. and examine how the K–12 landscape has grown more crowded.
Read the report: fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
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...
Researchers use the latest publicly available data and a fresh survey of K–12 stakeholders in all 50 states to provide a comprehensive update to Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength...
fordhaminstitute.org
Two examples of states stepping up to hold the line on instructional time by enforcing minimum hours requirements & blocking furloughs. Both of these moves also have major budget implications for districts.
1) Oregon:
opb.org/article/2026...
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I would camp out overnight to buy a book-length sociological treatise about the broader influence of Bloom's 2-sigma paper on research, culture, education and technology.
Someone please write this book!
Genuine question about #1 here:
Does there exist anything empirical looking at how CAL compares to free reading in that free time space?
Restated bluntly - how would computer-based enrichment compare to just reading a book?
Oregon is made up of over 200 schools and education service districts, and the governor’s instructional time order won’t land the same everywhere.
Hi Matt. Have you read @dylanpkane.bsky.social’s writing on going tech free with his teaching? I think you will find it thought provoking.
fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/tech-free-...
