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Articles by Chad Aldeman

Chad Aldeman writes about school finance and teacher compensation.

New Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Inherits America’s Worst Teacher Pension Mess

Surprise! Rising Enrollment Numbers Show Young People Want to Be Teachers

teacher pensions

Teacher Pension Pac-Man: How Rising Costs Are Eating Away at Education Budgets

Federal Data: Schools Have Been Adding Teachers Even as They Serve Fewer Students

January 30, 2023

On a Per-Student Basis, School Staffing Levels Are Hitting All-Time Highs

September 19, 2022

teacher job market

Schools Try Bonuses, Stipends to Attract & Keep Teachers in a Tight Labor Market

Chad Aldeman & Katherine Silberstein

Teaching Kids to Read — Not Guess. Free Summer Program Launches to Help Parents

New Learning Loss Calculator Estimates Costs of Catching Kids Up In 8K Districts

Marguerite Roza, Katherine Silberstein, Aashish Dhammani & Chad Aldeman

New Interactive Database Tracks Districts' Federal Relief Fund Spending

Chad Aldeman, Katherine Silberstein & Aashish Dhammani

New Dashboard Showcases Innovative Ideas in Education

Jim Cowen, Robin Lake & Chad Aldeman

January 26, 2022

There Is No 'Big Quit' in K-12 Education

January 17, 2022

Can Districts Innovate? The Case of the School Bus Driver Shortage

Chad Aldeman & Marguerite Roza

September 21, 2021

Hired Today, Fired in ‘22: Are Relief Funds Setting Schools Up for Fiscal Cliff?

August 23, 2021

How Districts Can Add Learning Time Without Breaking the Bank

Analysis: 10 Lessons from Past Educational Disruptions, and How They Can Help Students Make Up Lost Learning After COVID-19

Analysis: Remote or in Person? Underspending or Running Deficits? What School Reopening Decisions Mean for District Budgets

Aldeman: Lessons from Spanish Flu — Babies Born in 1919 Had Worse Educational, Life Outcomes Than Those Born Just Before or After. Could That Happen With COVID-19?

February 2, 2021

Analysis: Did School System Retirements Spike in 2020? Data from 7 State Pension Plans Show They’ve Actually Decreased

Chad Aldeman & Alex Spurrier

November 1, 2020

Aldeman: How Much Learning Time Are Students Getting? In 7 Large School Districts, Less Than Normal — and in 3, They’re Getting More

October 20, 2020

Analysis: Research Shows Students Lose Learning Even During Brief School Closures for Snow Days. Those Case Studies Show the Harm From COVID Will Be Multiplied Many Times Over

August 26, 2020

Analysis: How Devastating Floods in Thailand in 2011 Harmed Students’ Academic Growth, and What Lessons We Can Use in Confronting Learning Loss During the Pandemic

August 18, 2020

Aldeman: What a Wave of Teacher Strikes in Argentina Can Teach Us About Learning Disruptions, Degree Attainment, Higher Unemployment & Lower Earnings

August 12, 2020

Aldeman: What a 2005 Earthquake in Pakistan Can Teach American Educators About Learning Loss After a Disaster

Analysis: Districts Are Calling the Shots During COVID Shutdowns. So Why Hold Schools Alone Accountable for Student Learning?

Chad Aldeman & Anne Hyslop

Analysis: What Lasting Academic (and Economic) Effects Could Coronavirus Shutdowns Have on This Generation of Students? Some Alarming Data Points From Research on Previous Disasters

Aldeman & Dachille: What Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Mean for the Teacher Labor Market? 5 Predictions, and 4 Strategies for Districts

Chad Aldeman & Lauren Dachille

Aldeman: Teacher Pensions Took a Beating in the Great Recession and Passed the Costs on to New Employees. It’s Probably Going to Happen Again

Aldeman: The Iowa Caucuses Steer Our National Priorities. But Iowa’s Education Policies Are Bad for the Nation — and for Iowa

February 2, 2020

Aldeman: The 2010s May Be The Best Decade Ever in Terms of College Attainment. Don’t Dismiss the Value in That

January 8, 2020

Analysis — One Big Takeaway From Two New Investigations About Real Estate and School Ratings: You Can’t Tell a Good School Without Measuring Student Growth

December 16, 2019

Aldeman: Two Alternatives to New York City’s Teacher Pension System, Which Most Retirees Will Never Collect From

December 8, 2019

Aldeman: 3 Differences Between California’s Teacher Pension System and Social Security That Have a Huge Impact on Retirees — New Report

November 13, 2019

Aldeman: Did Fear of School Closings Prompt Warren’s Tough Talk on Tests? She Needn’t Worry — Those Shutdowns Rarely Happen

October 22, 2019

Aldeman: Mobility. Flexibility. Fairness. State Colleges Have These in Their Retirement Plans. So Why Don’t K-12 Districts?

October 15, 2019

Aldeman: We Think We Know How to Teach Reading, but We Don’t. What Else Don’t We Know, and What Does This Mean for Teacher Training?

September 15, 2019

Marchitello & Aldeman: Democrats Want to Raise Teacher Pay. Here’s How the Government Can Really Help — By Promoting Pension Reform

Max Marchitello & Chad Aldeman

Aldeman: Why Aren’t College Grads Becoming Teachers? The Answer Seems to Be Economic — and the Labor Market May Be Starting to Improve

Aldeman: The L.A. District May Owe $13.6 Billion for Health Care & Pensions — and the Strike Made Things Worse. Obamacare Is a Way Out

January 30, 2019

Washington D.C.

Aldeman & Schmitz: D.C.’s High Teacher Turnover Rate Hurts Educators as Well as Students. Blame the District’s Pension Plan

Chad Aldeman & Kirsten Schmitz

January 7, 2019

Aldeman: Teachers Need to Build a Nest Egg. Schools Need Teachers to Stay on the Job. Changing Rules on Vesting in Pensions Can Help Both

September 12, 2018

Aldeman & Marchitello: Skyrocketing Spending on Benefits Hurts Teachers and the Schools That Employ Them. 4 Steps Toward Fixing That

Chad Aldeman & Max Marchitello

August 22, 2018

Aldeman: How Have Pension Costs Hurt Teacher Pay? If Contributions Were Still at 2001 Levels, Every Teacher Would Get a 7% Raise Today

Aldeman: Yes, Average Teacher Salaries Are Down. But Many Individual Teachers Are Doing Just Fine

Aldeman: Striking Teachers in Arizona and Colorado Are Angry Over Pay. They Should Also Be Mad About Their Pensions

Aldeman: Teachers Have the Nation’s Highest Retirement Costs. But They’ll Never See the Benefits

Reactions & Reflections

Analysis: How Much Does West Virginia Really Pay Its Teachers? How Pensions Muddy the Math on Teacher Salaries

Analysis: Yes, Teacher Turnover Can Be a Problem. But New Federal Data Show It’s Far From a National Crisis

February 14, 2018

Aldeman: How La.’s Teacher Pension System Can Be Both Crushingly Expensive and Not Very Good for Educators

October 18, 2017

Analysis: Yes, Teacher Turnover Matters. But Much of What We Think We Know About It Is Wrong

October 9, 2017

Schmitz & Aldeman: Want to Keep Veteran Teachers? End the Pension Push-out

Kirsten Schmitz & Chad Aldeman

September 5, 2017

Clinton’s Wonky Side Could be a Weakness But One She Keeps Well Hidden on K-12 Education

Chad Aldeman & Kaitlin Pennington

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