Our Nashville PEER working group on postsecondary readiness published its first policy brief in March 2024. This brief is a preliminary look at the association between early postsecondary coursetaking (EPSOs) in Metro Nashville Public Schools and later student outcomes.
In this terrific article for Vanderbilt News, Jenna Somers summarizes the current state of voucher legislation in Tennessee and gets the perspectives of Peabody scholars on what the research says.
In this article from Chalkbeat, I weigh in on the recent announcement that New York City will receive $30 million in federal funding for six new magnet high schools in Manhattan and the Bronx.
My paper with Nick Mark and Jennifer Jennings on peer continuity from middle to high school in New York City was published in the August/September issue of Educational Researcher. You can read the article here.
In a new Spotlight post at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, we summarize our recent work examining peer continuity from middle to high school in NYC. You can read my co-author Nick Mark’s summary tweet thread here.
Nashville PEER has received a $650,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to study early post-secondary course opportunities (EPSOs) in Metro Nashville Public Schools and to design solutions for addressing inequalities. Our team will work closely with MNPS to better understand the nature of disparities in EPSO participation and success, and to design and test interventions for reducing them.
Our research team released a new NBER working paper reporting results from our “at-scale” informational interventions for high school choice in New York City. You can read my co-author Sarah Cohodes’ Twitter summary here.
Beginning Summer 2021, I will be an Associate Editor of the journal Education Finance & Policy. I’m looking forward to working with lead editors Stephanie Cellini and Randy Reback on a journal I’ve read and contributed to since its inception!
In this New York Times article I weigh in on the dilemma facing the NYC Department of Education as it plans for middle and high school admissions in 2020-21 without the benefit of student achievement measures typically used for screened schools admissions.
