Dan Goldhaber

2 months ago | the74million.org | Dan Goldhaber |Ashley E. Jochim |Robin Lake |Andrew Rotherham

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Last week, DOGE’s “shock and awe” campaign came to education. The chaotic canceling of grants and contracts for various research activities at the Institute for Education Sciences (IES), a little-known yet important agency rarely at the center of public debate, was unprecedented. It showed that the Trump administration is becoming adept at using the tools of government against the federal bureaucracy.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Dan Goldhaber |Ashley E. Jochim |Robin Lake |Andrew Rotherham

Last week, DOGE’s “shock and awe” campaign came to education. The chaotic canceling of grants and contracts for various research activities at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a little-known yet important agency rarely at the center of public debate, was unprecedented. It showed that the Trump administration is becoming adept at using the tools of government against the federal bureaucracy.

Jul 24, 2024 | aei.org | Nat Malkus |Dan Goldhaber

During the pandemic, the federal government sent $190 billion in ESSER relief funding to America’s schools. Among other things, ESSER was intended to help students catch up from pandemic learning loss—but did it work? Did ESSER help kids catch up? Did it help some students more than others? And should the federal government spend more to address COVID learning loss? On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus discusses these questions, and more, with Dan Goldhaber.

Jun 21, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Dan Goldhaber

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. REFERENCES , & (2020, April 20). Seattle will give high-school students A's or incompletes; colleges urged to adopt generous grading. The Seattle Times.

Feb 25, 2024 | richmond.com | Jim Wyckoff |Dan Goldhaber

In an attempt to make public school teacher salaries more competitive, Virginia legislators are proposing to increase the average teacher salary in Virginia to at least the average teacher salary nationally. We encourage the legislature to consider policies that would be more effective. Investing in teachers makes sense, doing so without regard to the challenges confronting teachers and schools doesn’t.