Joshua Goodman
@joshua-goodman.com
Education economist @ BU Wheelock & Economics Dept | Wheelock Education Policy Center | Co-editor @ JHR | White House CEA 2022-23 | www.joshua-goodman.com
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Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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Incredible paper that shows what I have long believed at my core: that research & teaching can complement each other, and that having research-active faculty teach undergrads is a very good thing!
Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Incredible paper that shows what I have long believed at my core: that research & teaching can complement each other, and that having research-active faculty teach undergrads is a very good thing!
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Highly selective colleges have been leaning into early decision. At more than 70 colleges and universities last year, they enrolled 40%+ of their class through ED. Evan Mandery and I are asking them to reverse course in this @bostonglobe.com op-ed. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/15/o...
Why top colleges should cut back on early decision admissions - The Boston Globe
Colleges have increasingly relied upon early decision to secure ever-larger portions of their entering classes. But the early decision edge goes largely to students who already have a big leg up on th...
www.bostonglobe.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Highly selective colleges have been leaning into early decision. At more than 70 colleges and universities last year, they enrolled 40%+ of their class through ED. Evan Mandery and I are asking them to reverse course in this @bostonglobe.com op-ed. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/15/o...
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One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
www.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
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Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
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Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
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Hi #EconSky, I'm on the #EconJobMarket!
My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes.
I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession.
Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵
My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes.
I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession.
Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Hi #EconSky, I'm on the #EconJobMarket!
My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes.
I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession.
Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵
My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes.
I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession.
Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality.
My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.
🧵👇
My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.
🧵👇
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality.
My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.
🧵👇
My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.
🧵👇
This feels like an M-urgency.
Hard times for states starting with "M".
From the latest @mattbarnum.bsky.social newsletter on pandemic-era school closures and post-pandemic learning recovery:
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
From the latest @mattbarnum.bsky.social newsletter on pandemic-era school closures and post-pandemic learning recovery:
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This feels like an M-urgency.
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New: Pandemic-era school closures still occupy a significant part of the American political discourse, but do they still matter for student test scores?
Answer: yes, but only a bit.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
Answer: yes, but only a bit.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New: Pandemic-era school closures still occupy a significant part of the American political discourse, but do they still matter for student test scores?
Answer: yes, but only a bit.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
Answer: yes, but only a bit.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
Hard times for states starting with "M".
From the latest @mattbarnum.bsky.social newsletter on pandemic-era school closures and post-pandemic learning recovery:
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
From the latest @mattbarnum.bsky.social newsletter on pandemic-era school closures and post-pandemic learning recovery:
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hard times for states starting with "M".
From the latest @mattbarnum.bsky.social newsletter on pandemic-era school closures and post-pandemic learning recovery:
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
From the latest @mattbarnum.bsky.social newsletter on pandemic-era school closures and post-pandemic learning recovery:
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
This email was not spam but was trying its hardest to convince me that it was.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This email was not spam but was trying its hardest to convince me that it was.
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Great tweetstorm about an excellent #econjmp. I've been lucky enough to advise @daniellecgw.bsky.social and see this work develop over the last few years. This is the definitive work on segregation academies and has important results for econ history, labor, edu, and public finance
Hire her!
Hire her!
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Great tweetstorm about an excellent #econjmp. I've been lucky enough to advise @daniellecgw.bsky.social and see this work develop over the last few years. This is the definitive work on segregation academies and has important results for econ history, labor, edu, and public finance
Hire her!
Hire her!
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We are incredibly proud to have helped achieve a pro-housing, pro-safe streets Council, infuse our local conversations with powerful ideas like land value tax, dynamic metering, and flipped lobbying, and draw many new voters to being involved in important issues.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We are incredibly proud to have helped achieve a pro-housing, pro-safe streets Council, infuse our local conversations with powerful ideas like land value tax, dynamic metering, and flipped lobbying, and draw many new voters to being involved in important issues.
Join us later today for a conversation about the critical educational trend lines that have been going down over the past 5-10 years!
(i.e. cognitive skill measures and public school enrollments)
(i.e. cognitive skill measures and public school enrollments)
Happening today at 3pm ET / 12pm PT! edworkingpapers.com/webinar-series
Be the first to hear who’s joining the new EdWorkingPapers Review Board.
The EdExchange isn’t just a repository of research—it’s a hub for connection. 💡
@joshua-goodman.com @abbyfrancis.bsky.social
Be the first to hear who’s joining the new EdWorkingPapers Review Board.
The EdExchange isn’t just a repository of research—it’s a hub for connection. 💡
@joshua-goodman.com @abbyfrancis.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Join us later today for a conversation about the critical educational trend lines that have been going down over the past 5-10 years!
(i.e. cognitive skill measures and public school enrollments)
(i.e. cognitive skill measures and public school enrollments)
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Already getting some Discourse wins here. (I take full credit.) www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
It’s Too Early to Write Off College Degrees
Companies are favoring multitool graduates with broad skill sets.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Already getting some Discourse wins here. (I take full credit.) www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Lord of the Files
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Lord of the Files
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I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
I won't be at APPAM this year but this looks like a lovely event for education policy scholars 👇
Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week.
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I won't be at APPAM this year but this looks like a lovely event for education policy scholars 👇
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A lot of details in here surprised me--cost of college edging lower, overall enrollment numbers holding steady. Definitely a case where the ambient conventional wisdom and the facts are pulling in opposite directions.
Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college.
That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours):
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours):
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A lot of details in here surprised me--cost of college edging lower, overall enrollment numbers holding steady. Definitely a case where the ambient conventional wisdom and the facts are pulling in opposite directions.
Reposted by Joshua Goodman
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated. Enrollment is near pre-pandemic levels, real tuition is flat or down, and the college wage premium remains high.
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
Is college enrollment really plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated. Enrollment is near pre-pandemic levels, real tuition is flat or down, and the college wage premium remains high.
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
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New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...