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.

Join Vanderbilt and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on Tuesday September 8, 2026, from 2-3 pm ET for the live webinar release of results from the 2025 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and a live discussion of the findings. I will be participating on an expert panel with my colleagues Carolyn Heinrich and Jonathan Seiden.

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.