Excited to share that I'm joining the faculty at @teacherscollege.bsky.social this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education. Grateful to my many mentors & colleagues at Cornell, Brown, and beyond who have advocated for me and supported my work. www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ac62...

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Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.

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Professor @christocleve.bsky.social has received funding from the MIT Blueprint Labs Charter School Research Collaborative to advance actionable charter school research. He will study how suspension reform policies impact students’ criminal justice outcomes. blueprintlabs.mit.edu/charter-coll...

Charter School Research Collaborative - Blueprint Labs

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This policy guide highlights trends in special education enrollment across the country and state strategies that can more equitably fund and support high-quality services for students. Prof. @christocleve.bsky.social provided research support for this report.📊 www.ecs.org/funding-spec...

Funding Special Education Services

The number and percentage of students receiving special education services in schools has increased since 2000, and this trend has continued in recent

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In some states, 25% of students from the lowest-income backgrounds receive special education (edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1374). This issue is why I am honored to be a 2026 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. I aim to improve supports for students with my research. @annenberginstitute.bsky.social

Brown University Department of Education@brownedudept.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations to Professor @christocleve.bsky.social, who received the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship for his research, "Understanding Special Education at Scale."🎉 Read more about Professor Cleveland's project: naeducation.org/awardee/chri...

Annenberg faculty Christopher Cleveland is quoted in a recent @theatlantic.com article providing national context on special education identification trends and what they may mean for district budgets. Read the article: buff.ly/aKl1ujK

A Mediocre Public-School Education for Just $40,000 a Pupil

How New York City’s education budget became an untouchable money pit

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We are headed out west to LA this week for the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social (AERA) conference. Check out the @annenberginstitute.bsky.social folks who will be presenting at AERA. Let me know if you'll be at AERA and want to connect! @brownedudept.bsky.social

Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Headed to @aeraedresearch.bsky.social this week? Take a look at the Annenberg faculty, postdocs, and staff who will be presenting. We hope to see you there! #AERA2026

Happy #AEFP2026 Day 2!

@aefpweb.bsky.social conference (#AEFP2026)! I’m proud to share research with 🌟 collaborators built on strong partnerships. Our sessions are linked! @annenberginstitute.bsky.social @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social @andrewpenner.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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🏙️ Association for Education Finance and Policy Conference 2026 (#AEFP2026) Christopher Cleveland, Ph.D. & Collaborators Sessions & Papers: I’m proud to share research with 🌟 collaborators built on...

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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-...

Excited to share a new EdWorkingPaper on the relationship between family income and disability ID. 🧵 TLDR: Low-income students are much more likely to receive SPED services while high-income students are more likely to get 504 plan accommodations. edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1374

School-Based Disability Identification Varies by Student Family Income

Currently, 18 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive additional supports through the identification of a disability. Socioeconomic status is viewed as central to understanding who gets ...

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Stunning work: "Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive gifted education ... Under 4 percent of students in the lowest income percentile are identified as gifted, compared with 20 percent of those in the top income percentile." edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1375

Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income

Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive gifted education. Using education and IRS data that provide information on students and their family income, we show pronounced dif...

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US Census Bureau Study: Income Affects Disability Identification in US Schools | Christopher Cleveland posted on the topic | LinkedIn

As you’re hunkered down for the winter storm, here’s a new, policy-relevant U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies working paper to read, written by a great team. School-Based Disability Iden...

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Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income | Christopher Cleveland

If you're looking for something to tune into after the Super Bowl, here's a new working paper! Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students ...

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New NEPC Review: @newamerica.org report offers a helpful starting point for policy discussions focused on redistricting to address fiscal and demographic inequities across districts. @christocleve.bsky.social bit.ly/49YimKH

NEPC Review: Redrawing the Lines: How Purposeful School System Redistricting Can Increase Funding Fairness and Decrease Segregation (New America, September 2025)

A New America report argues that states can improve educational equity by redrawing school district boundaries to reduce fiscal and demographic disparities. It models three approaches: blank-slate dis...

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School funding shapes opportunity, but not always equally. The Annenberg Institute served as the independent research partner for the @RIFoundation’s Blue Ribbon Commission, informing their recommendations on creating a fairer, more transparent system in RI.

Equalizing Opportunity: Creating a Fair and Transparent Funding…

Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission

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2025. What a year. www.axios.com/2025/12/29/g...

Tariffs, Taylor Swift and tragedy: These stories defined 2025

The search term that garnered the most inquiries in Axios' analysis was Charlie Kirk.

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Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

The rise of accommodations is a legit issue to explore, but this graf conflates two different things. *504 plans* are generally for accommodations. IEPs are for needed educational services and *do not* disproportionately go to advantaged students. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week. As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).

RIDE recently released its "Blueprint & Strategic Plan for Differently-Abled Students’ Success." I spoke with The Brown Daily Herald about some of my 'kudos' and 'questions' regarding the plan. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025... @annenberginstitute.bsky.social

RI education department releases special education blueprint amid federal funding cuts

There are 26,000 students receiving special education services in Rhode Island.

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I spoke with @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social about Providence Classical High School newly providing its admissions exam in Spanish and the policy considerations involved. @annenberginstitute.bsky.social www.oceanstatemedia.org/education/cl...

Classical High, Providence’s top public school, offers entrance exam in Spanish for first time

The school enrolls a smaller proportion of Hispanic students than the district at large, which is 68% Hispanic

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📰 I provide thoughts about national patterns and policy debates in gifted education for this @thehill.com article. “One of the central concerns… [is] …which students are going to be able to be identified as gifted.” @annenberginstitute.bsky.social thehill.com/homenews/edu...

Please vote for which papers you’d like to see discussed in the next #EdWorkingPapers Webinar! My paper “Leveraging IEPs to Understand Special Education Services at Scale” (edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1249) is in the “Making Sense of IDEA: The Latest Evidence on IEPs and Special Education” group. 😀

Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Want to hear research insights straight from the source, on the issue that matters most to you? 🗳️Sign up to cast your vote and help choose the next #EdWorkingPapers Webinar topic >> mailchi.mp/annenbergins...

@acooperstock.bsky.social, @dracostruth.bsky.social, and I had a great time on the First Lady Chicago Architecture Cruise during the @asanews.bsky.social Annual Meeting!

I'm on Cambridge's 87 bus right now, heading to the Royal Sonesta to hear some great Economics of Education talks as part of the #NBER Summer Institute. I'll try to live post as many as possible, so watch this thread! @nber.org #EconSky

We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard. “This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social

The Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound School ISLE Society for young professionals is proud to announce our annual Summer BBQ, Wed 6/11, 6-10pm, on Cathleen Stone Island. It will be a beautiful evening to support programming for Boston students! Tickets @ link: www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/...

Are Students on Track? Researchers find the information collected in student longitudinal data systems are better indicators for on-track college completion than the survey-based self-regulation and cognitive measures. ➡️ bit.ly/4kxWEkA

#AEFP2025 - Didn't get enough of the special education policy conversation? Stop by 8.03 (New York Room) at 3:30 and hear @christocleve.bsky.social share impacts of new developmental delay legislation on the identification of students with disabilities in Indiana.

Wheelock Educational Policy Center@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social · last yr.

WEPC's partnership with the Indiana Dept of Ed focused on policy impact for students with disabilities & English learners is a center piece of this afternoon's #AEFP2025 sessions featuring presentations by @christocleve.bsky.social @lindseykaler.bsky.social & @josefinasenese.bsky.social