New: There are large gaps in educational outcomes by race and family income. The natural assumption is that schools are vastly unequal. But in fact the largest resources inequalities emerge when kids are out of school, per a new study from @davidblazar.bsky.social. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/21/p...

Grateful to @mattbarnum.bsky.social and @chalkbeat.org for covering our research. Low-income kids have ~$80K less invested in their development than wealthier peers — and the gap isn't in schools. It's in housing, health care, and nutrition. Kids don't live in silos. Neither should our solutions.

Continuing to catch up on work I missed sharing while I was off social media. Out in Educational Researcher: Black teachers have large effects on the self-efficacy and engagement of their Black students — and improve test scores and attendance for all students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

My first post here and I'm excited to share some recent work. A team of UMD researchers and I track investments in children to understand who gets left out and when. 1️⃣ Gaps exceed 50% before kindergarten 2️⃣ Public schooling narrows them at age 5 3️⃣ But disparities persist in type of services received