Research

Who Becomes a Teacher When Entry Requirements are Reduced? An Analysis of Emergency Licenses in Massachusetts (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, and Sidrah Baloch). Forthcoming in Educational Researcher.

Also available as WEPC Working Paper 2023-4 and EdWorkingPaper No. 23-857.

Policy reports available at WEPC.

Teacher Licensure and Workforce Quality: Insights from the First Wave of COVID Era Emergency Licenses in Massachusetts (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, and Sidrah Baloch). 2025. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Advance online publication.

Also available as WEPC Working Paper 2024-1 and EdWorkingPaper No. 24-936.

Policy reports available at WEPC.

Motivations to Enter the Teaching Profession During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Emergency License Holders in Massachusetts (with Ariel Tichnor-Wagner and Andrew Bacher-Hicks). 2025. Teaching and Teacher Education, 158.

Can a Commercial Screening Tool Help Select Better Teachers? (with Matthew A. Lenard). 2023. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 45(3): 530-539. 

Also available as WEPC Working Paper 2022-4 and EdWorkingPaper No. 22-648. 

Two Years Later: How COVID-19 Has Shaped the Teacher Workforce (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks and Alexis Orellana). 2023. Educational Researcher, 52(4): 219-229.

Working paper: EdWorkingPapers.

Summary presentations and policy reports available at WEPC.

Media coverage: Boston25, WBUR (April 2022), FiveThirtyEight, Time, WBUR (October 2021)

Momentary Affective Experiences of Teachers Serving Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities in Self-contained Settings (with Kristabel Stark and Elizabeth Bettini). 2023. Remedial and Special Education, 44(5): 381-394.

A Classroom Observer Like Me: The Effects of Race-congruence and Gender-congruence Between Teachers and Raters on Observation Scores. 2023. Education Finance and Policy, 18(3): 442-466. 

Also available as WEPC Working Paper 2021-1 and EdWorkingPaper No. 21-470. 

Teacher Skill Development: Evidence from Performance Ratings by Principals (with Matthew A. Kraft and John P. Papay). 2020. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 39(2): 315-347. 

Also available as EdWorkingPaper No. 19-97.