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.

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

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...

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

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.

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.

@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.

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 🧵

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

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:

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.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Yet one more way that we are failing children.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

AERA: I'm looking forward to sharing a paper co-authored with @alexfreidus.bsky.social and @ericaoturner.bsky.social on how families of disabled children made school choices during the pandemic. Should be a stellar symposium on school choice for marginalized families! 8am Sunday in Meeting Room 712.

I love this assignment so much and can’t wait to use it (with attribution) the next time I teach Sociology of Education!

So excited to present some great undergrad honors theses from UCI LIFTED students at #psa2025 Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and to the session organizers who helped make this happen!

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.

Allow me to nerd out a bit about the stats in our recent PNAS paper... To make this graph, we calculated a 100-by-100 grid of the average proportion of peers in each income percentile for students in each percentile (i.e., average peer income distributions for each student percentile). [1/n]

What I keep turning over at 3am: How do we design an education system that cultivates people to have the courage to stand up, and stand together, for something greater than themselves?

What California needs now is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. That's why I'm running for Governor. katieporter.com

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

Hey! What are you doing Friday morning? Attending the Schooled and Sorted "Author Meets Critics "session, obviously. 8AM, Boston Park Plaza, Brookline conference room. #ESS2025 www.russellsage.org/publications...

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Things I am excited to fly across the country and wake up at 8am EST for : ) #ESS2025

Come hang out with us and this dream team of critics at #ESS2025 next Friday. There’s still time to get a copy of the book before hand. www.russellsage.org/publications...

Attending #ESS2025 & interesting in donuts, education, and/ inequality? Join us next Friday, 8AM for an author (me, @emilykpenner.bsky.social , @andrewpenner.bsky.social) meets critics (@rachelefish.bsky.social, @johndiamondphd.bsky.social, @jenjennings.bsky.social) discussion!

We're living through a highly polarized time, both economically and politically. Schools have the potential to bring us together, but are contributing to our separation. In a new @pnas.org article, my colleagues and I document students' exposure to economically diverse school and classroom peers. 📄:

Roses are red, Violets are blue, When we abandon the common school ideal, Our society turns to poo.

Students in the top 1% of the income distribution are highly isolated in affluent school enclaves. 💥6%💥 of these top 1% percentile kids’ peers are ALSO in the top income percentile. 💥20%💥 are in the top 5 income percentiles. 💥Nearly 50%💥come from the top 20 income percentiles.

When students from the top 1% of the family income distribution have as many classmates from from the top 10% as from the bottom 60% they are deprived of opportunities to learn with and from classmates who aren’t similarly high income.

Economic integration within schools is limited, @ucirvine.bsky.social-led study finds | Research, published in PNAS, highlights disproportionate isolation of students from families in highest income brackets   @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @andrewpenner.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social

Hmm, could be bad news for all the Narratives out there.