What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Sometimes (human/animal) social groups split into two (or more). Team departures in corporate firms, political party splits, religious schisms, software forks, etc. Let's study this. I hire a predoc or a postdoc on social group splits. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/events/...

My two cents: everyone studying and making education policy should know education history. Since that seems unlikely, I’ll settle for requiring Groundhog Day: nearly every “new” reform has already been debated, tried, renamed, or memory-holed.

Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats@adamlaats.bsky.social · 3mo ago

School people! Are you scratching your head about the rush to cram AI into schools? It's not just us. From the very beginning, school in the US has been driven by too much tech-thusiasm. My book tells the story. Get a 30% discount for Memorial Day. Just use the code HMOR26:

NEW: Corshelle Jenkins was falsely charged with a crime + a warrant issued for her arrest. It was clear mistaken identity but a judge said there were no available lawyers for her. The charge would stay + she had no way to fight it She's 1 of 1000s in Oregon trapped in criminal cases without lawyers

Falsely charged with a crime, no way to fight it: inside Oregon’s court crisis

An attorney shortage has left thousands trapped in criminal cases without lawyers. One wrongfully accused woman had no choice but to wait

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Interested in some highlights from our latest paper about the effects of Ethnic Studies while it scales district-wide? Our friends at EdWorkingPapers have you covered. edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...

We demonstrate that financial cities are increasingly overrepresented in national and local top earnings and that earnings for financiers in these cities explain 28% of this growing disparity.

I am so excited for what this will mean for evidence-based education policy in Oregon and the opportunities it will create for Oregon kids! graduate.lclark.edu/live/news/58...

Ben Bowman Joins L&C as Senior Fellow

Bowman will work closely with Graduate School leadership and faculty and with partners across the state to scale the school’s impact and expand the use ...

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Elsewhere on that thread was the point that blaming drivers gets politicians and traffic engineers off the hook.

Pelican@pelicanmerchant.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I watched a kid get hit by a car as he pedaled into the street. The driver committed suicide. This was a lack of civil infrastructure. A median was installed after. Please fuck off with your idealistic fervor dream of perfect performance in every situation.

Some good news: SFUSD's high school Ethnic Studies course has substantial academic benefits when implemented district-wide. New research by @birajbisht.bsky.social, Sade Bonilla, Grace Kim, and myself just out today in @aeraedresearch.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.3102/0002...

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you, putting 100+ songs online for the first time.

Inside a Gold Mine of Texas Prison Music

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

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Happening today! An entire @aefpweb.bsky.social panel on "Climate Change and Education" #AEFP2026 Don't miss @emilykpenner.bsky.social @andrewpenner.bsky.social & many others at session 3.10 in St. Gallen 3. Grace will be presenting our WP: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1238

If you want better student outcomes, scrap the chromebooks & upgrade the HVAC.

A computer on every lap? NC schools rethinking one-to-one device access.

Cost to replace laptops and doubts about learning retention have NC districts questioning practice of assigning a device to each student.

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@mattbarnum.bsky.social of @chalkbeat.org highlights our research about the relationship between students’ gifted and special education identification and family income. Higher income -> gifted education Lower income -> special education There’s a lot to ponder about why this happens.

Matt Barnum@mattbarnum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yep these numbers are incredibly striking. Full newsletter is here with additional tidbits on AI-cheating, state funding effort, and "zero-percent proficient" schools. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/chalkbeat-...

I’m really glad to see that our paper is now out at Ed Researcher! We examine turnover among the half of school employees who are not teachers to understand how their turnover compares. Using Oregon data (2007-23) for all public school employees, there are 3 new patterns that we document: A 🧵

Revolving School Doors? A Longitudinal Examination of Teacher, Administrator, and Staff Contributions to School Churn - Emily K. Penner, Yujia Liu, Aaron J. Ainsworth, 2026

Non-teaching staff comprise over half of all school employees, and their turnover may be consequential for school operation, culture, and student success, yet w...

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I have found myself thinking about this line a lot recently.

David Woodruff@dmwoodruff.bsky.social · last yr.

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

Students from high income families get more 504 supports, while students from low income families are more likely to be in special education. Working paper is available at:

School-Based Disability Identification Varies by Student Family Income

Family income shapes school disability supports: high-income students receive more 504 accommodations and low-income students more special education services.

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Dani Sandler@dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Family income shapes school disability supports: high-income students receive more 504 accommodations and low-income students more special education services.

In a new working paper, my collaborators and I show that which students are identified as gifted and talented varies substantially by family income, and that these differences remain even after accounting for students’ test scores.

Dani Sandler@dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Students from families in the top income percentile are more than 5 times as likely to be identified for gifted programs as students from the bottom percentile.

Yet one more way that we are failing children.

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The accompanying editorial tells the sad truth that is largely being ignored www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social, featuring research by @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, @emilykpenner.bsky.social, and Andrew Penner.

#205 Schools as Sorting Machines

Play #205 Schools as Sorting Machines by Have You Heard on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Baby’s first data visualization—was reading a book about the Banff wildlife crossings and wanted to understand the preferences of different animals.

Fascinating work by Deven Carlson, @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, James Carter, @rachelmarisa.bsky.social, Vitali Radsky, and Andrew McEachin on both the potential of school choice for the purpose of desegregation and the disappointing reality that most school choice systems tend to exacerbate segregation

AERA@aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

The Power of Attorney flourished when more Americans saw incarcerated people as more than their crimes. Their career would be unthinkable today: Leaving prison under armed guards to play hundreds of concerts and record in major studios.

The Prison Soul Band That Opened for Stevie Wonder

The band The Power of Attorney flourished when more Americans saw incarcerated people as more than their crimes.

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It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.

RC28 Social Stratification@isa-rc28.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

So excited to receive this award on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and 27 other coauthors!

Adam Gamoran@agamoran.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Congrats to @andrewpenner.bsky.social and a host of co-authors on winning the award for significant scholarship from @isa-rc28.bsky.social, presented by RC president @jenniebrand.bsky.social.

Every jailhouse lawyer knows Dee Farmer’s name, even if they don’t know who she is. What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.

In Prison, She Changed Constitutional Law. Meet the Trans Woman Behind the Case.

Farmer v. Brennan is one of the most cited Supreme Court cases of all time. Few people know just how revolutionary Dee Farmer was.

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Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!

Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why

Immigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste.

theconversation.com

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

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Very excited for the latest paper from the international administrative data network I am a part of! Led by @aresherman.bsky.social we show that 75% of pay differences between immigrants and native-born workers arise because of sorting into different jobs, with 25% due to unequal pay within jobs.

Universal school masking reduced weekly COVID-19 deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. 50 percent of districts removed mask requirements by spring 2022 contributing to 9 percent of COVID deaths that year, from Guzman, Imberman, Filosa, Kilbride, and Malkus https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849