Bruce D. Baker

Bruce D. Baker

@schoolfinance101.bsky.social

Professor, Education Finance & Policy Personal Website: https://schoolfinance101.com School Finance Indicators Database: https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/ Books: https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/bruce-d-baker/

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Bruce D. Baker
@schoolfinance101.bsky.social

From the Right to Education to the Distribution of Resources: Testing U.S. School Finance Equity Metrics in Mexico, Brazil and France edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1629

edworkingpapers.comFrom the Right to Education to the Distribution of Resources: Testing U.S. School Finance Equity Metrics in Mexico, Brazil and FranceMost national constitutions and international treaties guarantee a right to education, and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has warned that sharp geographic disparities in spendin...
Bruce D. Baker
@schoolfinance101.bsky.social

Cost Efficiency of U.S. School Districts: Stochastic Frontier Evidence from the National Education Cost Model edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1626

edworkingpapers.comCost Efficiency of U.S. School Districts: Stochastic Frontier Evidence from the National Education Cost ModelI estimate the technical efficiency of U.S. school districts in producing middle-grades achievement with a stochastic frontier model built on the National Education Cost Model (NECM), which measures e...
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@schoolfinance101.bsky.social

Flanagan’s #CarrieSeries is a story about a child the state never saw: 15 years at home, her only teacher a neighbor slipping books into a birdhouse. After Mahmoud & Mirabelli, her mom holds every opt-out. Who speaks for Carrie? @primevideo.bsky.social schoolfinance101.com/2026/10/23/c...

schoolfinance101.comCarrie Is Not the Mere Creature of Anyone: A Children’s Recourse Reading of Flanagan’s CarrieFlanagan’s Carrie White spends fifteen years invisible to the state. Read against the law review draft Not the Mere Creature of Anyone, her story shows who the doctrine protects, and who it n…

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Hunter
@hunterub.bsky.social

Wild that the Trump family is very clearly in the pocket of multiple(!) foreign dictators and apparently nobody even cares. This used to be the stuff of taut thrillers, now it's just oh there's Jared doing bribe stuff again

Paul Blumenthal@paulblumenthal.bsky.social

Dutch intelligence obtained a Russian hack of Kushner's phone and then hacked it themselves to find:

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Bruce D. Baker@schoolfinance101.bsky.social

More and more compelling research continues to pile up regarding the positive effects of increases in school funding (& negative effects of cuts). Here's a quick update: schoolfinance101.com/2026/10/22/m...

schoolfinance101.comMoney Matters. And the Evidence Keeps Piling Up.Twenty-one months after the third edition of Does Money Matter in Education?, new rigorous studies on capital spending, teacher pay, pandemic aid, cuts and long-run outcomes all point the same way.…
Bruce D. Baker
@schoolfinance101.bsky.social

More and more compelling research continues to pile up regarding the positive effects of increases in school funding (& negative effects of cuts). Here's a quick update: schoolfinance101.com/2026/10/22/m...

schoolfinance101.comMoney Matters. And the Evidence Keeps Piling Up.Twenty-one months after the third edition of Does Money Matter in Education?, new rigorous studies on capital spending, teacher pay, pandemic aid, cuts and long-run outcomes all point the same way.…

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Benjamin Riley
@benjaminjriley.bsky.social

Not unpopular here! @mpershan.bsky.social & I once co-authored an essay on this very topic, nodding to our friend @dylanpkane.bsky.social. "We need more teaching – and less preaching – to influence the beliefs of educators. We should replace scientific misconceptions, rather than debunk them."

deansforimpact.orgWhy mythbusting fails: A guide to influencing education with science | June 29, 2017 | Deans for Impact (DFI)“If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong,” physicist Richard Feynman said. “In that simple...
Larry Ferlazzo@larryferlazzo.bsky.social

Unpopular opinion; studies and critics debunking learning styles are taking on low hanging fruit & are avoiding answering the more difficult & much more useful question ‘How can we better differentiate instruction so we can reach every student in our classrooms?’

Bruce D. Baker
@schoolfinance101.bsky.social

Dear Miami Tech/Finance& Crypto bros - You'll never recruit talent to Miami without first pushing for greater investment in the public schooling system, which then levels up all else (charter, private, etc.)

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Jen Jennings
@jenjennings.bsky.social

Excellent article by @jessgrose.bsky.social underscoring that private school choice works a lot like “man choice.” Everyone is welcome to “choose” Bad Bunny, but he has to choose you back. And in the end, someone is stuck with the school equivalent of a dude with no job who lives in mom’s basement

Larry Ferlazzo@larryferlazzo.bsky.social

The School Policy Scam Turning Voters Blue www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | The School Policy Scam Turning Voters Blue (Gift Article)In Texas and Iowa, Democrats are successfully tying universal school vouchers to corruption.