People move often, and in theory, freely. But segregation persists. New research finds that residential mobility in CA largely maintains unequal access to high-opportunity neighborhoods, even though individual movers may buck the trends. www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/the...

📢 Actions You Can Take to Support UC Values: ✍️ Sign: UCLA Faculty Association letter: tinyurl.com/ucstandup 🏳️‍⚧️ Sign: Save Gender-Affirming Care at UCLA: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📬 Write: UC President Milliken & the Regents: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold... (h/t @jesscraven101.bsky.social)

My friends at USC Lusk Neighborhood Data for Social Change just launched #SOLACHAN, the first (and now annual) comprehensive look at LA's housing and neighborhoods la.myneighborhooddata.org/solachan-home/

Submissions due FRIDAY! Send us your work!

📣 Hot off the press 📣 We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

📊Anyone have examples or resources for RA training? i.e., teaching students data cleaning, descriptive tables, annotated bibliographies, anything really.📈 I remember seeing some great examples and saving links in a location so secure I cannot find it, so help appreciated! #socsky #academicsky

2 weeks left to submit! We welcome abstracts from many disciplines and methodologies!

AERA is sharing this statement issued by former NCES commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr on the “devastating shutdown and decimation of a critical national institution.” Read it here: www.aera.net/Portals/38/P...

Reminder that submissions for our LIHTC program special issue are due on August 1st, 31 days from now! We hope to be reading your abstract soon☺️

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

In the past two days I've received professional emails addressed to Mrs Owen's, Dr. Ownes, and Ana. All good alias possibilities.

An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.

🎉I'm delighted to be joining the @ucla.edu Sociology department on July 1. Very excited to join their brilliant faculty and students in the city I love💙💛 Grateful to my USC Sociology family who raised me from a baby AP. Even more grateful to continue lifelong friendships made there 🙏 #socsky

Exciting things ahead working with my friend Brian McCabe! @ordinarysquares.bsky.social

The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out! 🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲 Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o... #housing #data #research #HPD

"Should we do something? It feels like we should do something. Hopefully, I’ll feel more like I can dedicate the brain space to that just as soon as I finish my work, which is tuning this glockenspiel."

⭐10 days away from No Zoom June!⭐ MY RULES: 1. I will not Zoom 2. I'm still working 3. I'm still on email (slower responses) 4. I'll do up to two phone meetings a week (and I'll walk and talk) 5. I'll meet in person Join me!

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Brown v Board decision. Revisit videos and presentations from our conference, "The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v Board of Education at 70" edopportunity.org/segregation/...

On this day before the 71st anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision that declared school segregation inherently unequal, sharing a new publication written for the 70th anniversary examining why integration is eroding (open access): 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In 2022, Louisiana ranked 20th on White-Black school seg among states. Seg today is absolutely due in part to gov action: how school district and catchment lines are drawn, how housing is subsidized, zoned, and sited. See the data: edopportunity.org/segregation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

"Louisiana 'got its act together decades ago'” 🤔 Per the Segregation Explorer: in 2022, White-Black school seg was .43 - White student share in a White kid's school was .43 higher than in a Black kid's school. edopportunity.org/segregation/... apnews.com/article/scho...

I'll be presenting work-very-much-in-progress on trends in residential and school segregation at @stanfordeducation.bsky.social #SCANCOR on Monday morning at 10 AM. I hear there are pastries!

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

J/K, everything's fine! (Can I send my therapy bill to the federal government?)

Welp. (Curious that this came from an nsf.gov email address referencing the Standard Application Process at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, which we've never gone through for our data. There is apparently no NCES staff to send the bad news email).

In these dark times, it's comforting to know that reviewer 2 can still be a complete menace: "So the findings are weak and depend on the specification, but papers have been published with less."

Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission): 1) actions 2) background 3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

Anyone have guidance on IES restricted data contracts now that NCES is gone? Is disclosure review just not happening anymore? Is this a license agreement violation? Devastating blow for education research, and for early career folks whose research relies on these data #edusky #socsky

Reminder that this is the person that Rick Caruso called "one of the biggest thinkers around"

Official fundraising site for the government of Ukraine: u24.gov.ua Join me in donating 💛💙

New reporting drawing on our Segregation Explorer data tool. Find your school at edopportunity.org/segregation

Featuring work by my brilliant friend @decelles.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview. www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

Sad to report that two-time CASBS fellow (1997-98, 2001-02) Christopher Jencks, renowned sociologist of inequality, has died. A copy of Jencks's coauthored book "The Black-White Test Score Gap," which he worked on at CASBS, resides in our Ralph W. Tyler Collection www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

On the loss of a model of intellectual integrity and courage—Christopher Jencks. He showed us how to wade into troubled waters and come out the stronger for it. @theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...

Sandy was brilliant--empirically oriented but saw the big picture. Incisive. Curious. His work shaped research on social policy, education, and inequality, among other fields. More impressive was his kindness. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

I've made my 5 calls today, have you? DC and local offices. It's not scary. I promise. The hardest part is deciding which issue to focus on 🙃

Great new study! Another example of research using federally-funded and supported data--NCES data alongside FFCWS data, which was originally funded by NIH

NEW from @stanfordgse.bsky.social Educational Opportunity Project and @harvardeducation.bsky.social CEPR: Pandemic recovery continues to be uneven. Test score gap grew 11% between students in high- and low-poverty districts; gaps by racial composition grew 17%. edopportunity.org/recovery/

Happy Love Data Week, everyone. Here is our love letter to you .... and public data. #LoveDataWeek #LoveData25 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Another great resource: the Segregation Tracking Project. We built off NCES data to create Longitudinal Imputed School Database. Race/eth and free lunch data for every school in the US 1991-2022. We impute erroneous/missing data but retain original CCD values. edopportunity.org/segregation/

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Time to save your senators' and reps' numbers in your contacts!

States can foster more opportunity through LIHTC regulations Check out my musings in a @niskanencenter.bsky.social post Building on work funded by @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social and what I'm noodling about here at @casbsstanford.bsky.social www.niskanencenter.org/states-can-f...

Scenes from today's croissant crawl. I love LA 🥐🥐🥐🥐

Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

These maps from CAL FIRE show house by house data and photos on devastation from the Palisades and Eaton fires. Absolutely devastating. recovery.lacounty.gov/palisades-fi... recovery.lacounty.gov/eaton-fire/

Join me in donating: Anti Recidivism Coalition: antirecidivism.org (type "firefighter fund" in payment box) American Red Cross: www.redcross.org/donate/donat... (select California Wildfires) California Community Foundation: www.calfund.org/funds/wildfi... Mutual Aid LA Network: mutualaidla.org