Education Week covered the September 8 PISA 2025 release co-hosted by IES, OECD, and Vanderbilt. See my comments on the widening gap in the U.S. between students at the 90th and 10th percentile, and possible causes. You can watch the full webinar HERE.

Our latest brief from NashvillePeer examined more than 19,000 MNPS graduates to better understand how participation in the AVID program relates to students' progression from high school into college.

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.

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.

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.

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.