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.
Read MoreOur 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.
Read MoreIn this Chalkbeat NYC article, I weigh in on the future of high school zone priorities in NYC. There aren't many left--only about 10% of students are admitted to zoned programs--but they remain important in a few parts of the city.
Read MoreIn this article, Scott Latham, Jennifer Jennings, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, and I examine the distribution of pre-K quality in NYC. On average, program quality in NYC is high. However, there are sizable disparities by race/ethnicity. These gaps are explained in part—though not entirely—by differences in proximity to high-quality programs.
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