Nicholas Mark, Jennifer Jennings, and I posted a new working paper at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform on peer similarity in high school choices in NYC.

In recent articles from CBS News and CNN Politics, I weighed in on President Trump’s threaten to withhold federal funding from schools that fail to open for in-person instruction in the fall. Bottom line: the federal government currently provides only about 8% of all K-12 revenues, so even if he could make such a move, the aggregate impact would be small. Still, high-poverty districts depend more on federal aid, and the US Dept of Education has more discretion over Covid relief aid to school, so there are reasons to pay attention. But politically this is threat is almost surely an empty one.

On June 2 I participated in a panel discussion on the use of screens in NYC public school admissions organized by The Century Foundation. Video of the live-streamed event can be found here.

In this op-ed for the New York Daily News, Dora Galactos, Laura Petty, and I address the need for the NYC Department of Education to re-think screened school admissions in 2020-21.