Larry Mishel and Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute There is now widespread acceptance across the political spectrum that the typical worker’s wages have grown very slowly or been stagnant for several decades but a consensus narrative explaining wage stagnation has not developed yet. [togglable text="expand abstract"] The frequently invoked conventional explanations attributing wage problems primarily to automation and, somewhat, to globalization, cannot actually explain key wage develo...| Economic Policy Institute
student ability is remarkably static and predictable from pre-K to college and beyond, and this means that our social contract is broken| freddiedeboer.substack.com
My recent post on education and optimism bias received a lot of attention, mostly positive. It occurred to me that, as I’ve written so much on this topic, it may be hard for new readers to get caught up. So here I’m laying out my gloss on the overall state of American education research, policy, and discourse, and pointing you in the direction of evidence for these ideas. This is more of a series of various observations than a conventional argument. The most thorough exploration of my tho...| freddiedeboer.substack.com
it's still a great field, but "learn to code" has created headwinds| freddiedeboer.substack.com
a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps| freddiedeboer.substack.com