Jake Stern

Director of Performance Management Boston Public Schools - Office of Data and Accountability

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

Bye for now. Follow me @jacobstern for updates (less education research, more train content)

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

Delighted that "Who Benefits From Attending Effective High Schools?" with Sebastian Kiguel, Shanette C Porter, John Q Easton has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Labor Economics.

WP version: https://t.co/S0E3iRTdhl

[Probable Causation @ProbCausation]

Episode 82: @KiraboJackson on the multiple dimensions of school quality

https://t.co/JmxB2LyCaY

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

"Quantifying school quality has the unintended consequence of increasing the geographical concentration of advantage, potentially entrenching inequalities." https://t.co/TPIsmMg1W8

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

"Preferences for schools’ racial/ethnic composition are more stable than preferences for quality and proximity to home" https://t.co/qvotHGB0N8

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

"In districts that need to stagger start times, it may be advisable for elementary schools to start earlier to accommodate later secondary school start times." https://t.co/RLiYFMZWw4

[Paul Bruno @Paul__Bruno]

U.S. Score Gaps Widen Consistently, Pattern Not Mirrored in Other Education Systems https://t.co/QqQl7ehwj9

Changes Between 2011 and 2019 in Achievement Gaps Between High- and Low-Performing Students in Mathematics and Science: International Results From TIMSS

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

"Female students were more successful when their primary-school teachers were disproportionately female." https://t.co/6ZboHPudRk

[Annenberg Institute at Brown @AnnenbergInst]

🚨🚨Check out this new #EdWorkingPaper from @edu_tuan, Chanh Lam, and @Paul__Bruno:

Is there a national teacher shortage? A systematic examination of reports of teacher shortages in the United States

https://t.co/jFYPRifhqq

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

@TeachMrReed @Josettefor4 @BPSCE @BPSEarlyLearn

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

Diversifying Neighborhoods, Diversifying Schools? The Relationship Between Neighborhood Racial Change and School Segregation in New York City - Kfir Mordechay, Jennifer B. Ayscue, 2022 https://t.co/5kx4zphZSm

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative)

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Start your meetings on time! This paper finds that meetings which start late don't just annoy participants, they are also much less productive and creative.

And making a habit of lateness hurts. Just the anticipation of a late meeting has similar effects https://t.co/W7SqLU0BJC

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

MA legislature cutting the estate tax when lower income people in Massachusetts already pay 10% of their income in taxes whereas the top 1% of earners pay 6.8% #FairShare https://t.co/pSdfL5Ljgo

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

Economic and racial integration, and school choice in NYC: District that set ambitious prioritization targets and eliminated academic screens lowered economic segregation by 55% and racial segregation by 38% https://t.co/vGHcSAe7x8

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Better funded public schools have widespread benefits:
🧑‍🏫For every $19.85 spent per student in a public school, one crime was averted. https://t.co/wAqmaThswC
🧑‍🏫“Increased per pupil spending... helped reduce the inter-generational transmission of poverty.” https://t.co/Q0KNMie9lA

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

@emollick Not sure how 'work-life balance' is defined. But these findings seems to not align with trends of the higher earners working longer hours (https://t.co/PmNCoZeQsx, https://t.co/EqRMnZ4p7U, etc)

[David Schönholzer @davidfromterra]

Between 1997-2008, voters in Los Angeles approved a series of bonds dedicating around $20 billion in funding to the construction, expansion, and renovation of hundreds of schools. What was the impact of this massive investment in public goods? Julien Lafortune and I investigated.

[Jake Stern @JakeSternBPS]

One Elite High School’s Struggle Over Admissions https://t.co/36KRq0wHVW

[Albert Shanker Institute @shankerinst]

NEW REPORT:

Segregation and School Funding: How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity

(w/@schlfinance101 and @drprestongreen)

https://t.co/h8Axhy2cfb