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President Biden has nominated Adam Gamoran (current William T. Grant Foundation president and former Wisconsin professor) to lead the Institute of Education Sciences. Adam was on my dissertation committee and is a wonderful person. Bravo!
WASHINGTON ā Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve as key leaders in his administration: Ben
I hope that you enjoy reading this as much as we enjoy working together! My tldr summary: Top earners are increasingly isolated from other earners at work.
Itās there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/n
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is...
Itās there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/n
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is...
Very excited about this working paper with @nick-ainsworth.bsky.social@christocleve.bsky.social! Tldr: RTI adoption lowered SPED identification rates & raised reading achievement among Black students. It did not lower achievement (in either reading or math) for any student subgroups.
Currently 15 percent of U.S. students receive special education services, a widespread intensive intervention with variable effects on students. Spurred by changes in federal policy, many states and d...
Seems like a good time to note that universal free school meals -- which Walz achieved in Minnesota and Project 2025 absolutely hates -- is not only the right thing to do; it's also solid educational policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...
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A thing I found myself thinking about this week: We live in a world that thinks about how much care we need to provide to maximize productivity, but I want to live in a world where we think about how much productivity we need to maximize care.
Many US educational policies aim to get supplementary resources to kids from low income families. Remarkably, though, we do a terrible job at measuring poverty in schools. We can do better! New from @michspieg.bsky.social@andrewpenner.bsky.socialedpolicyinca.org/newsroom/why...
In 2013ā14, California enacted an ambitiousāand essentialāreform to improve educational equity by directing state resources to districts and schools that educate large numbers of economically di...
Woohoo another new paper posted! Schools that take-up universal free lunch see reductions in their suspension rates! We use a DiD design, and--in a subsample that permits the use of student FEs--find the largest effects among kids previously eligible for FRPL. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
Measuring School Economic Disadvantage journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3... "direct certification provides the best widely available measure, both over time and across the distribution of school economic disadvantage. By contrast, neighborhood-based measures consistently perform poorly"