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Joshua Bleiberg; Tuan D. Nguyen – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Educator labor markets vary considerably across the country and can change quickly during recessions. We use data from the Quality Workforce Indicators (QWI) on educators in Elementary and Secondary Schools from 2000-01 to 2022-23. We demonstrate how to transform the quarter-level data in the QWI to construct valid educator labor market measures.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Burnout
Matt Giani; Madison E. Andrews; Tasneem Sultana; Fortunato Medrano – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This study examines College and Career Readiness (CCR) policy implementation through the lens of "decoupling." We investigate how high schools have jointly implemented Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Industry-Based Certifications (IBCs), and whether there is evidence of "curricular-credential decoupling" via…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Credentials, High Schools, Data
Michael L. Chrzan; Francis A. Pearman; Benjamin W. Domingue – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
The increasing rate of permanent school closures in U.S. public school districts presents unprecedented challenges for administrators and communities alike. This study develops an early-warning indicator model to predict mass closure events -- defined as a district closing at least 10% of its schools -- five years in advance. Leveraging…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Learning, School Districts, School Closing
Amanda Lu; Leiah Groom-Thomas; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Outcomes-Based Contracting (OBC) ties vendor payments to performance metrics, aiming to enhance accountability in public education. This study examines its implementation in tutoring services through the Southern Education Foundation pilot program. Interviews with district leaders and vendors reveal that OBC fosters collaboration, improves service…
Descriptors: Vendors, Contracts, Performance Contracts, Accountability
Elaine Allensworth; Alex Gordon; Christopher Young – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
There is considerable variability in the literacy assessments taken in Kindergarten through second grade, across schools and between multilingual learners and other students, and within students over time. This makes it difficult to study changes in students' acquisition of ELA skills in these formative years, or to evaluate policies and practices…
Descriptors: Literacy, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Joao M. Souto-Maior; Kenneth A. Shores; Rachel E. Fish – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Whether selection processes contribute to group-level disparities or merely reflect pre-existing inequalities is an important societal question. In the context of observational data, researchers, concerned about omitted-variable bias, assess selection-contributing inequality via a kitchen-sink approach, comparing selection outcomes of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Predictor Variables, Correlation, Selection Criteria