Ben Backes
@brbackes
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Education policy at American Institutes for Research and CALDER
Arlington, VA
Joined April 2016
RT @RoddyTheobald: Publication alert! Our @caldercenter paper on inclusion and special education teacher attrition in MA, w/ @brbackes, @j…
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RT @caldercenter: Want to learn more about what different measures tell us about the quality of the teacher workforce? Check out this new C…
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RT @J_HumanResource: @brbackes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber (@CEDR_US) & @RoddyTheobald connect "nontest" teacher performance markers, such…
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@EdFuller_PSU @caldercenter @jecowan @RoddyTheobald @CEDR_US Thank you for the heads up! I'm guessing it's because we revised the paper after that original tweet. I think this should work:
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Now published!
Excited to finally release into the wild our @caldercenter Working Paper that examines the relationship between both test and non-test value added and student long-run outcomes (i.e., college enrollment) (with @jecowan, @RoddyTheobald, and @CEDR_US)
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@MatthewAKraft Thanks for sharing this! It's very well done. The chapter on foreign language instruction makes me wish we had more widespread foreign-language instruction in the US (especially in elementary)
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New working paper! With @jecowan @CEDR_US @RoddyTheobald We examine a pandemic-era policy in Massachusetts that allowed prospective teachers to become licensed to teach without first completing typical requirements such as licensure testing.
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A takeaway: short-run impact of a pandemic response is not necessarily same as long-run impact if policy made permanent. E.g., if initial wave represented a pool of interested teachers held out by barrier, different selection mechanism than those who tried teaching bc of policy
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RT @RoddyTheobald: It feels crazy that, in these times of school staffing challenges, we're likely facing staff layoffs in coming years as…
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RT @RoddyTheobald: See below for Dan's thread about our new @caldercenter paper on teacher education program admissions. I rarely get to do…
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@DrMikeHansen Side note: as easy as it is to complain when the review process is frustrating, I'd like to balance that here by saying that the referees for this submission gave incredibly thoughtful and useful feedback. The process can work well!
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@phylliswjordan @jecowan Yes! Before the pandemic and when I actually had an office (and thank you!)
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@jecowan In contrast to an earlier test transition in MA and what @arielchris3 @orgul_ozturk & @gordanier found in South Carolina (, we find minimal mode effects in MA's more recent test administration
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