Liz Bettini
@lizbettini.bsky.social
I skeet about #Specialedteachers & #teacherworkingconditions, co-direct the @sparccenter.bsky.social & am affiliated w/ the awesome @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social here at @buwheelock.bsky.social (she/her)
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Fantastic, thorough, and nuanced analysis of IDEA at 50, by @afgilmour.bsky.social
www.educationnext.org/idea-at-50-l...
www.educationnext.org/idea-at-50-l...
IDEA at 50
The landmark federal law ensured access for students with disabilities. Now it’s time to focus on outcomes.
www.educationnext.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Fantastic, thorough, and nuanced analysis of IDEA at 50, by @afgilmour.bsky.social
www.educationnext.org/idea-at-50-l...
www.educationnext.org/idea-at-50-l...
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I love this paper. If you study special education teachers, or support special education teachers, you need to read it!
Excited to share a new Project RESPECT paper out today in RASE, defining special educators' working conditions! We often talk about "working conditions" but seldom precisely define them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I love this paper. If you study special education teachers, or support special education teachers, you need to read it!
ICYMI! What are working conditions? Check out our RASE paper to see how we define them & why!
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
ICYMI! What are working conditions? Check out our RASE paper to see how we define them & why!
Fantastic, thorough, and nuanced analysis of IDEA at 50, by @afgilmour.bsky.social
www.educationnext.org/idea-at-50-l...
www.educationnext.org/idea-at-50-l...
IDEA at 50
The landmark federal law ensured access for students with disabilities. Now it’s time to focus on outcomes.
www.educationnext.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Fantastic, thorough, and nuanced analysis of IDEA at 50, by @afgilmour.bsky.social
www.educationnext.org/idea-at-50-l...
www.educationnext.org/idea-at-50-l...
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I'm thrilled to share the recording of our first #SustainableED Virtual Seminar
@jorgecuartas.bsky.social's talk does an amazing job outlining the multiple pathways through which climate change affects childhood development.
Highly accessible for all audiences.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pRI...
@jorgecuartas.bsky.social's talk does an amazing job outlining the multiple pathways through which climate change affects childhood development.
Highly accessible for all audiences.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pRI...
SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series: Jorge Cuartas
YouTube video by SustainableED
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'm thrilled to share the recording of our first #SustainableED Virtual Seminar
@jorgecuartas.bsky.social's talk does an amazing job outlining the multiple pathways through which climate change affects childhood development.
Highly accessible for all audiences.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pRI...
@jorgecuartas.bsky.social's talk does an amazing job outlining the multiple pathways through which climate change affects childhood development.
Highly accessible for all audiences.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pRI...
"Fifty years ago, Ed Martin helped write the law that made clear to all states and all public schools: Children with disabilities deserve better. The law, he says, was "an affirmation of the values of the country."
He hopes that's still true."
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
He hopes that's still true."
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump
The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.
www.npr.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Fifty years ago, Ed Martin helped write the law that made clear to all states and all public schools: Children with disabilities deserve better. The law, he says, was "an affirmation of the values of the country."
He hopes that's still true."
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
He hopes that's still true."
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
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In over 15 years of teaching kids and adults, I've found most people will need some type of accommodation in their academic lives. Rich people are just more likely to ask for them.
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In over 15 years of teaching kids and adults, I've found most people will need some type of accommodation in their academic lives. Rich people are just more likely to ask for them.
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Did you catch our webinar on enrollment shifts? A new @EdWeek.org article highlights a core finding: the biggest enrollment declines are in the wealthiest 20% of districts, with little sign of rebound. buff.ly/VkNiNdg
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Did you catch our webinar on enrollment shifts? A new @EdWeek.org article highlights a core finding: the biggest enrollment declines are in the wealthiest 20% of districts, with little sign of rebound. buff.ly/VkNiNdg
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An excellent rundown of the impact of the attacks on the Dept of Education this year.
A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack
hechingerreport.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
An excellent rundown of the impact of the attacks on the Dept of Education this year.
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A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack
hechingerreport.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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Did you know TESE's 2025 manuscript of the year is in the latest TESE volume? Quezada et al. describe the journey of adults with Visual Impairments within visual disabilities education. Read to see how considering, becoming, and being impact “role modelship" +... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“You Are Just a Life Role Model” a Multiple Case Study of Teachers With Visual Impairment in the Field of Visual Disabilities - Saurym Quezada, Erika Fundelius, Erin Bush, Jenny Root, 2025
Teachers with disabilities serve as role models for students who share their disability identity, offering lived experience as a valuable source of knowledge an...
journals.sagepub.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Did you know TESE's 2025 manuscript of the year is in the latest TESE volume? Quezada et al. describe the journey of adults with Visual Impairments within visual disabilities education. Read to see how considering, becoming, and being impact “role modelship" +... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"We estimate large positive marginal effects of local educational spending on Black students’ enrollment, attainment, and lifetime earnings."
"We estimate large positive marginal effects of local educational spending on Black students’ enrollment, attainment, and lifetime earnings."
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940
Mississippi’s 1920 school finance equalization program failed to benefit many of the state’s Black students—an outcome emblematic of broader patterns …
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December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"We estimate large positive marginal effects of local educational spending on Black students’ enrollment, attainment, and lifetime earnings."
"We estimate large positive marginal effects of local educational spending on Black students’ enrollment, attainment, and lifetime earnings."
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Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
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New research with @clareroutledge.bsky.social
Funded by the Gatsby Foundation
We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching
Funded by the Gatsby Foundation
We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
New research with @clareroutledge.bsky.social
Funded by the Gatsby Foundation
We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching
Funded by the Gatsby Foundation
We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching
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Why do people choose to become teachers?
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
EconPapers: Understanding the decision (not) to become a teacher: evidence from survey experiments with undergraduates in the UK and US
By Sam Sims and Clare Routledge; Abstract: Teacher shortages are widespread, yet the reasons people choose (not) to enter the profession remain poorly understood.
econpapers.repec.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Why do people choose to become teachers?
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (#IDEA) was enacted 50 years ago. @airinforms.bsky.social highlights IDEA’s impact and the ongoing work to ensure a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities below.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (#IDEA) turns 50 this month! 🎉 This landmark law opened doors for millions of students with disabilities.
Watch AIR experts explain what expanded access means for students, families and communities: https://bit.ly/4p9jHEX
Watch AIR experts explain what expanded access means for students, families and communities: https://bit.ly/4p9jHEX
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (#IDEA) was enacted 50 years ago. @airinforms.bsky.social highlights IDEA’s impact and the ongoing work to ensure a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities below.
ICYMI! Check out our definition of what working conditions are and what they are not!
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
ICYMI! Check out our definition of what working conditions are and what they are not!
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It's been so great to work with this team-- check out our new paper on defining special educators' working conditions!
Excited to share a new Project RESPECT paper out today in RASE, defining special educators' working conditions! We often talk about "working conditions" but seldom precisely define them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's been so great to work with this team-- check out our new paper on defining special educators' working conditions!
ICYMI! TESE has some pretty incredible reviewers :-) Congrats to all the reviewers of the year!
Congratulations to these fantastic reviewers! Please join us on Wednesday at TED (1:00-1:50 PM) to celebrate and learn more!
@edutuan.bsky.social
@tashnuvashaheen.bsky.social
@coreypeltier.bsky.social
@lizbettini.bsky.social
@ted-kaleidoscope.bsky.social
@cec-ted-policy.bsky.social
@edutuan.bsky.social
@tashnuvashaheen.bsky.social
@coreypeltier.bsky.social
@lizbettini.bsky.social
@ted-kaleidoscope.bsky.social
@cec-ted-policy.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
ICYMI! TESE has some pretty incredible reviewers :-) Congrats to all the reviewers of the year!
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@edsustainable.bsky.social is hosting our first annual interdisciplinary conference!
Research at the intersection of education and the environment. 🎓🌎
May 1st, 2026
Providence, RI
Easy one paragraph abstract submission ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share w/ your networks!
Research at the intersection of education and the environment. 🎓🌎
May 1st, 2026
Providence, RI
Easy one paragraph abstract submission ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share w/ your networks!
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
@edsustainable.bsky.social is hosting our first annual interdisciplinary conference!
Research at the intersection of education and the environment. 🎓🌎
May 1st, 2026
Providence, RI
Easy one paragraph abstract submission ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share w/ your networks!
Research at the intersection of education and the environment. 🎓🌎
May 1st, 2026
Providence, RI
Easy one paragraph abstract submission ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share w/ your networks!
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✨What does the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce look like within and across states? Our new interactive data visualizer tool looks at the composition, stability, and distribution of the workforce in our seven partner states.
Explore the tool: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
Explore the tool: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
SPARC Data Explorer | SPARC Center
sparccenter.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
✨What does the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce look like within and across states? Our new interactive data visualizer tool looks at the composition, stability, and distribution of the workforce in our seven partner states.
Explore the tool: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
Explore the tool: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
Excited to share a new Project RESPECT paper out today in RASE, defining special educators' working conditions! We often talk about "working conditions" but seldom precisely define them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Excited to share a new Project RESPECT paper out today in RASE, defining special educators' working conditions! We often talk about "working conditions" but seldom precisely define them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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💡“Our shortages aren’t really from not having enough people; it’s having people teaching the wrong thing.” - @afgilmour.bsky.social
Check out this article from Education Week which features research from our recent working paper on the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce.
Check out this article from Education Week which features research from our recent working paper on the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce.
Schools Have the Special Educators—But Keep Losing Them to General Ed.: A study across seven states finds educators for students with disabilities need more targeted support.
Schools Have the Special Educators—But Keep Losing Them to General Ed.
A study across seven states finds educators for students with disabilities need more targeted support.
www.edweek.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
💡“Our shortages aren’t really from not having enough people; it’s having people teaching the wrong thing.” - @afgilmour.bsky.social
Check out this article from Education Week which features research from our recent working paper on the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce.
Check out this article from Education Week which features research from our recent working paper on the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce.
Reposted by Liz Bettini
Did you know recruitment and retention of #SpecialEducation teachers varies widely by school contexts, including by poverty level, enrollment demographics, and location?
🔎Explore more with our data visualizer: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
🔎Explore more with our data visualizer: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Did you know recruitment and retention of #SpecialEducation teachers varies widely by school contexts, including by poverty level, enrollment demographics, and location?
🔎Explore more with our data visualizer: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
🔎Explore more with our data visualizer: sparccenter.org/data-explore...