Joshua Goodman
Education & labor economist | @BrandeisU | @JPAM_DC | @NBERpubs | "A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." -Groucho Marx
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Kozakowski, Four-Year Colleges & Mobility.pdf
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Joshua Goodman
@arindube @Noahpinion @Jabaluck @dougwebberecon @jonisaacsmith and I will very soon release a paper showing that access to four-year public colleges entails a significant earnings boost (on average).
@WhitneyKoz has a great JMP on this as well
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Trump's big bet on career and technical education
Will the White House plans to boost spending on career and technical education help today's teens land better jobs?
Markets, Minds, and Money — Miguel Urquiola
Free markets made U.S. universities world leaders in research. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that in the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurial universities saw they could meet the industrializing country's demand for expertise. They moved away...
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Joshua Goodman
I am pre-ordering this book faster than you can read this tweet.
Can not wait to learn even more than I already have from @m_urquiola.
hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is… pic.twitter.com/7JTpHVcp4r
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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollment
Joshua Goodman
Our work on sibling spillovers in college enrollment is featured today on @nberpubs's home page!
How appropriate for Valentine's Day, when we should be telling the people close to us (including siblings) that we care about them.
nber.org/papers/w26502 pic.twitter.com/XZSuL8VmpF
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A Simple Way to Equalize the Ivies? Give Others the Legacy SAT Bonus
If lower-income students had a boost like those for children of alumni, selective colleges would be far less economically stratified, a study suggests.
Teachers’ Bias Against the Mathematical Ability of Female, Black, and Hispanic Students - Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Joseph R. Cimpian, Sarah Theule Lubienski, Ian Thacker, 2020
Researchers have long endeavored to understand whether teachers’ evaluations of their students’ mathematical ability or performance are accurate or whether thei...
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Joshua Goodman
@dynarski There's also evidence that universal screening at younger ages changes who qualifies for gifted and talented programs
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How Universal College Admission Tests Help Low-Income Students
Requiring the SAT or ACT, and making it free, reduces barriers for disadvantaged students who otherwise would not take the test.
Joshua Goodman
2) There's a broader body of evidence that says universal testing of students can find high-achievers who otherwise would be ignored.
For a review of this in the context of the SAT and ACT, see @dynarski's great piece
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Boston Exam Schools (brief).pdf
Joshua Goodman
My views have been shaped by two pieces of evidence.
1) @melanierucinski and I wrote a policy brief showing that the state exam can help identify numerous high-achieving Black and Hispanic students missed by the current system.
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Test maker accuses Boston schools of misusing exam - The Boston Globe
Boston Public Schools have for years misused the test results that help determine admissions to its coveted exam schools, in a way that makes it harder for “underrepresented” students to win admissions, according to the organization that administers...
Joshua Goodman
Today's @BostonGlobe reports that @BostonSchools is accused of misusing scores from the Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) to determine admissions to its elite public exam school.
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Great Expectations: The Impact of Rigorous Grading Practices on Student Achievement
One indicator of teachers’ expectations is their approach to grading—specifically, whether they subject students to more or less rigorous grading practices. Unfortunately, “grade inflation” is pervasive in U.S. high schools, as evidenced by rising...
Measuring College Performance: Lessons for Policymakers
Higher education data are now more widely available than ever before. In addition to institution- and program-level data, nearly every state has, or is in the process of developing, a student-level longitudinal data system that can follow students...
Massachusetts does a lot right - The Boston Globe
Like anyplace else, the state has its share of problems, but by many statistical measures, Massachusetts really is number one.
Vaccination rates at California’s schools
See vaccination and medical exemption rates at your school - and every California school with data.
Joshua Goodman
For example, see:
California - edsource.org/2019/vaccinati…
New York - google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…
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Home | NBER
Women play diverse and critical roles in the economies of both developing and developed nations. Yet, they often remain severely constrained from realizing their full personal and economic potential as a result of insufficient access to formal...
Success is killing San Francisco. Is Boston next? - The Boston Globe
The city by the bay has unaffordable housing, impassable streets, and impossible commutes. The city on a hill can still plot a different course.
Joshua Goodman
Success is killing San Francisco. Is Boston next?
bostonglobe.com/2020/01/29/mag… via @BostonGlobe
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The Easiest Reform for College Admissions
Many admissions issues are complicated, but preferences for the children of alumni are indefensible.
American Economic Association
The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure, and Human Capital Accumulation by Joshua Goodman. Published in volume 28, issue 4, pages 193-212 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2014, Abstract: Left- and right-handed individuals...
Joshua Goodman
Lefties are already at an economic disadvantage, as my research shows.
We need to know more about handedness and the brain, not less!
Read "The Wages of Sinistrality" here
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It’s a right-handed world. What if we looked at it from the left? - The Boston Globe
What would we gain if we looked at the world from the left-hand side?
Joshua Goodman
Many bio/medical/psych studies exclude left-handers from their samples. That's a mistake.
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