Thursday, April 26, 2012

Wall Street Journal on Educational Attainment

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The Wall Street Journal has a front-page article today on the slowdown in the growth of educational attainment. The article does an unusua...
Friday, April 6, 2012

No Access is Not Open Access

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Santa Monica community college in California has proposed to provide courses at cost, since students are currently being turned away from m...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Student Aid Simplification: An Update

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I have a new paper (with UM doctoral student Mark Wiederspan) on advances, and lack thereof, in simplifying the federal student aid system....

Class Size and the White House

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A White House report on teacher cuts cites our work on class size and postsecondary outcomes. Neato! "The most convincing scholarly r...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Upward Bound, Science and Advocacy

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The same advocacy group that successfully pushed through a congressional ban on any further randomized control trial (RCT) of Upward Bound...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

NYT Gives a Shout-Out to My Research on Inequality

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The NYT editorial page cites my research with Martha Bailey on growing gaps in college completion. Unfortunately, they did not link to our ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Thoughtful Discussion of Our Research on Early Interventions and College Outcomes

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Tim Bartik, an economist at the UpJohn Institute here in Michigan, has a very thoughtful post about our new paper on the relationship betw...