Dan Goldhaber is the Director of the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER, caldercenter.org) at the American Institutes for Research and the Director of the Center for Education Data & Research (CEDR, cedr.us) at the University of Washington. Both CALDER and CEDR use administrative data to do research that informs decisions about policy and practice.
Dan s work focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, including the broad array of human capital policies that influence the composition, distribution, and quality of teachers in the workforce, and connections between students K-12 experiences and postsecondary outcomes. Topics of published work in this area include studies of the statistical properties of value-added measures of teacher effectiveness, the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement, and the equity of teacher distribution.
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School closures have altered the education of 51 million students across the country since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, causing continuous debates over whether or not grading systems should be altered for students during online learning.
There are three main grading systems that schools all over the nation are using: pass or fail, A-F letter grading or no grades at all.
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Ralph Jimenez: What did school funding report say? Nothing new
Published: 12/20/2020 6:30:49 AM
It’s axiomatic that the lowest rungs on the ladder are the ones that get stepped on the most. In New Hampshire, those rungs, for local taxpayers and schoolchildren, are and have been labeled Allenstown, Claremont, Franklin, Lisbon, and Pittsfield.
In the three decades since the first of the Claremont school funding Supreme Court rulings, other communities have joined or perhaps even replaced some of those on the bottom. The pain of escalating and inequitable property taxes and underfunded schools is widespread.
The communities at the top of the ladder, most of them Lakes Region and Seacoast towns or mountain redoubts, are unchanged.
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