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Danielle Sanderson Edwards @drdsedwards

Asst. Prof @oduedlead Fmr. Postdoc @AnnenbergInst Ph.D. @MSUEdPolicy studying geographic inequities in access to effective teachers & schools

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Danielle Sanderson Edwards@drdsedwards
17 Jul 2024
Appreciated the opportunity w/ @BrookingsEd to frame my work w/ @MatthewAKraft on the landscape of GYO programs for a policy & general audience A few key takeaways about this increasingly popular solution to teacher workforce challenges: brookings.edu/articles/grow-…

Grow Your Own teacher programs: What are they, and what can (and can’t) they accomplish? | Brookings

Grow Your Own teacher programs can reduce teacher shortages, promote teacher diversity, and lead to improved teacher retention.

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8 Oct 2025
@drdsedwards @MatthewAKraft @ODU @BrownUniversity @SageEducation
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My paper with @MatthewAKraft describing the variety of Grow Your Own teacher programs nationally is in print in @ERjournal_AERA ! EdResearcher: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… Open Access: edworkingpapers.com/sites/de…
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29 Apr 2025
On this #TakeawayTuesday, we highlight "Another One Rides the Bus: The Impact of School Bus Transportation on School Choice.," by Danielle Sanderson Edwards. Link: doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00382 @aefpweb
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Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs is out in @ERjournal_AERA ! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @MatthewAKraft & I explore how the term GYO is used, describe GYO program variation, & examine alignment btwn GYO purposes & programming 🧵

Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs - Danielle...

“Grow Your Own” (GYO) programs have emerged as a new approach to expanding teacher supply, addressing localized shortages, and diversifying the profession. Howe...

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Future research: We need to know what types of GYO programs are effective at improving the many outcomes associated w/ them. I contributed to a research agenda that outlines possible research questions & data needed to evaluate GYOs newamerica.org/education-pol…

Research Agenda: Grow Your Own Teachers

This research agenda identifies key questions and data sources that can be used to uncover how GYO programs shape education, influence teacher outcomes, affect school and district performance,...

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Want to know more? Check out our @BrookingsInst blog post too! brookings.edu/articles/grow-…

Grow Your Own teacher programs: What are they, and what can (and can’t) they accomplish? | Brookings

Grow Your Own teacher programs can reduce teacher shortages, promote teacher diversity, and lead to improved teacher retention.

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Excited to share @NewAmerica Grow Your Own (GYO) Teacher Research Agenda I wrote w/ Amaya Garcia Brad Carl Conra Gist Jason Greenberg Motamedi Jenny Seelig & Roey Ahram! We know little about the effectiveness of GYO programs. We need more research! newamerica.org/education-po...

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GYO programs are difficult to study. They’re small size, their effects take years to observe plus we need for connected data across institutions & a good comparison group to study them.
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To remedy this, we outline important research questions & the specific data we need to evaluate them. We hope GYO programs, district & prep program leaders, & funders use this research agenda to inform their data collection & evaluation efforts!
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🚨JUST RELEASED🚨 New @REACHCenterEd policy brief from me & Kaitlin Anderson. Paper published in AERA Open reachcentered.org/publicatio… We estimate the effects of interdistrict choice & charter schl enrollment on btwn & within district racial & economic segregation 1/12

The Segregation Paradox in School Choice | REACH

The mission of REACH is to provide objective, rigorous, and applicable research that informs and improves school choice policy design and implementation to increase opportunities and outcomes for...

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Conclusion: choice is not good or bad. Choice is used by relatively disadv. Ss. There are positive fx of urban charters & interdist. choice on student achievement. Unregulated choice is just not a viable strategy for reducing segregation. 11/12
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View the peer-reviewed paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… 12/12

Do Public School Choice Policies Segregate Schools? Dynamic Effects in Michigan - Danielle Sander...

Interdistrict choice has the potential to exacerbate or alleviate between-district segregation—an increasingly pervasive form of U.S. school segregation—by allo...

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