Dan Goldhaber
@cedr.bsky.social
Who am I? I wonder sometimes and then remind myself here, http://caldercenter.org & here, http://cedr.us. Views are usually mine, & are not necessarily reflective of anything.
Education
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Business
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And, we need better vetting of tech claims. Again, I believe tech can be beneficial, but some of the claimed benefits to student achievement are outlandish. BTW, this is a good argument for a federal role in research as an honest broker (and maybe a changed role).
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Gaming is happening on school computers of websites that (are supposed to be blocked by GoGuardian) have "panic buttons" that you can click on to take you right to Google classroom.
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thinking through the incentives/opportunities they are presenting to students around tech. I know from my kids' schooling that tech is being used in all kinds of inappropriate ways. We all know this, right?
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1) AI has huge potential to revolutionize education; 2) it could be, on average, bad for student achievement given how it's used.
More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
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More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
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AI in schools: Ban it or embrace it? | Episode 1034 of The Education Gadfly Show
Mike Petrilli is back on the mic solo this week to weigh the case for and against banning AI in schools.
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It's solo @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social with an AI/tech ramble today. I find the rambles helpful in clarifying my own thinking on challenging issues. On AI, two things seemingly at odds can be true.
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The Macroeconomic Returns to School Finance Reforms: Micro-Calibrated Predictions Meet Causal Evidence
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
If spending more on schools raises the earnings of the children who benefit, does it eventually make the whole economy richer?
My new NBER paper examines this using school-finance reforms. 🧵
www.nber.org/papers/w35755
My new NBER paper examines this using school-finance reforms. 🧵
www.nber.org/papers/w35755
Reposted by Dan Goldhaber, Roddy Theobald
Evaluation Scores and Student Learning under Compulsory Teacher Re-Evaluation
We examine how lower-performing public school teachers respond to more frequent formative evaluations. A 2011 reform in Chile required teachers rated "basic" (the second-lowest category) to be re-eval...
doi.org
I’m excited to share a new EdWorkingPaper with @andydebarros.bsky.social. Evaluations are an increasingly common way school systems globally are trying to help teachers improve, but is more always better?
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doi.org/10.26300/ms3...
A 🧵
doi.org/10.26300/ms3...