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Education economist @ BU Wheelock & Economics Dept | Wheelock Education Policy Center (@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social) | Co-editor @ JHR | White House CEA 2022-23 | www.joshua-goodman.com
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Interesting endowment tax changes in the Senate budget bill proposal. This is driven by (1) counting all students (not just domestic) and (2) exempting schools with fewer than 3000 students. jamessmurphy.com/2025/05/10/t...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Far from the biggest news today, but I am shocked by how far down the authoritarian path the US already is, in just a few months. Orban, Erdogan, Putin: these guys must be watching in awe, with their jaws on the floor.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The authoritarian assault on higher education claims its second victim after Columbia - a coercive attack on academic freedom that deepens the threat to democracy and the rule of law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

Great @martinsandbu.ft.com column: "The economic consequences of Donald Trump’s second coming" Link: www.ft.com/content/0892... #econsky

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

New: Democrats find themselves increasingly divided over how to approach K-12 education. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

With rent control in the news, it’s a good moment to recall the research of @rebeccadiamond.bsky.social and co-authors. They show that strict rent control in San Francisco reduced the availability of rental housing, eventually *raising* rental costs. doi.org/10.1257/aer....

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... "for three key objectives: maximizing teacher utility, maximizing teacher retention, and maximizing student achievement...schools underutilize salary and performance pay while overutilizing retirement benefits"

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"... schools underutilize salary and performance pay while overutilizing retirement benefits. Restructuring compensation can significantly improve both teacher welfare and student achievement." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education. Why does that matter? Well... www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Fantastic point-by-point breakdown of post-pandemic enrollment trends in public schools

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to share my joint work with @joshua-goodman.com on K-12 enrollment patterns in Massachusetts. Five years after the pandemic began, we're seeing persistent enrollment losses in public schools, especially in the middle school years-trends that mirror what's happening nationally. Check it out!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Scratching my head at the CEA estimate that their economic plan will lower debt/GDP by at least 3pp in FY 2025. There are only 3 months left in FY 2025. And tariff revenue < 0.5% of GDP. So would need about 12% annualized GDP growth in Q3 to hit this target.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Y’all, I wrote a book! www.amazon.com/Science-Seco...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I led the Digest at NCES, and I’m so happy to see this getting more coverage. Digest provides nearly all the underlying data for COE and also other reports, like Indicators of School Crime and Safety. It’s used for policy, research, grant making, journalism, and so much more.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

📢 Viola Corradini (Columbia Business School) presents “Information and Access in School Choice Systems: Evidence from NYC,” asking: Can better information reduce school choice gaps?(1/4) @stoneeconucl.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

📢 Zachary Bleemer (Princeton) presents “College Peer Effects and the Labor Market” with Sahar Parsa, asking: Does grouping high-achieving students together benefit them academically or in the long run? (1/2) @stoneeconucl.bsky.social @zbleemer.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Thread in the am but if you want the main takeaway: The 2024 Digest of Education Statistics (under the current administration) includes just 27 tables by the (Congressionally mandated) deadline—far fewer than the nearly 270, on average, published in prior years www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

June treasury data came in today, and Americans paid a record $27B in tariffs & related DHS excise taxes this month—for an annualized pace of more than $300B/year The graph of intense pain & suffering keeps getting worse

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

"Parking permits. Desk space. Access cards. Ordered to bring back roughly 1,300 laid-off workers, the U.S. Department of Education instead has spent weeks ostensibly working on the logistics." www.chalkbeat.org/2025/06/25/e... #edusky

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Declining student numeracy and literacy is not just a post-pandemic phenomenon. The problems started earlier, so carefully identifying root causes (beyond the pandemic) is critical to addressing the issue. New from Jim Wyckoff: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197

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🔥What’s the only thing hotter than this week’s weather?🔥 Our new @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social working paper: “School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic” In it, BU Wheelock PhD @abbyfrancis.bsky.social and I ask: Has the pandemic permanently changed families' schooling choices?

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments