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

Joined November 2015
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Bye for now. Follow me @jacobstern for updates (less education research, more train content)
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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: works.bepress.com/c_kirabo_j…
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U.S. Score Gaps Widen Consistently, Pattern Not Mirrored in Other Education Systems nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsin… Changes Between 2011 and 2019 in Achievement Gaps Between High- and Low-Performing Students in Mathematics and Science: International Results From TIMSS

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"Female students were more successful when their primary-school teachers were disproportionately female." nber.org/papers/w30430#fromr…
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28 Jul 2022
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)
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21 Jul 2022
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 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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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 baystatebanner.com/2022/07/1…

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17 Jul 2022
Better funded public schools have widespread benefits: 🧑‍🏫For every $19.85 spent per student in a public school, one crime was averted. nber.org/papers/w29855 🧑‍🏫“Increased per pupil spending... helped reduce the inter-generational transmission of poverty.” gsppi.berkeley.edu/~ruckerj/…
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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.
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NEW REPORT: Segregation and School Funding: How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity (w/@schlfinance101 and @drprestongreen) shankerinstitute.org/segfund…
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Our collab w/ @emily_r_morton, @CEDR_US, and Tom Kane released 2 reports today on the widening test score gaps, the role of remote instruction for these widening gaps, & implications for districts’ recovery efforts caldercenter.org/covid-recov… (1/8) @caldercenter @HarvardCEPR @nwea

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