Election results show that vouchers are opposed by large majorities. But in some states, that sentiment has been overridden by the efforts of powerful governors and moneyed special interest groups. propublica.org/article/school…

"rising inequality is legitimated by the popular belief that the income gap is meritocratically deserved: the more unequal a society, the more likely its citizens are to explain success in meritocratic terms... the less important... a person’s family wealth and connections."

Learn why this teacher believes that there are better ways than high-stakes tests to assess whether high school students are prepared for their next step. #EWOpinion #K12 #Education edw.link/7hq

A smart way to generate students’ resentments to union/unionization

Go to a Walmart and check how much of the goods come from China. Manufacturing= emissions. It's not free

A Chinese podcast explores disturbing allegations against "Luo," a recent Stanford PhD graduate in political science. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UhSHwMPzizDv… 1/5

Clear evidence that people who include their pronouns in their email signatures receive preferential treatment in higher education settings.

New pub! Queer Asian American men face racism in the gay community, but what helps us resist it? This qualitative study used a strengths-based approach and interviewed 20 QAAM who endorsed loving themselves regardless of what white men think of them. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/or…

📈Data Alert!📈 ICPSR has new and updated data available for your research needs. Perfect for researchers, students, and data enthusiasts. Start exploring! Check it out ➡️ myumi.ch/ICPSR-new-rele… #NewReleases #DataUpdate #DataDriven

CEPI has launched a Researchers Landing Page for MI School Data, joining our landing pages for parents, educators, policymakers and the media. This page is designed to help researchers more efficiently find and use Michigan educational data & resources. mischooldata.org/researchers-la…

After monthssss of data collection/cleaning, we finally did it! We examined China's "at least one woman" quota for prefectural appointment and found that while it improves women's representation at first, it has become a glass ceiling in the long run..papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

How did the US become a land of opportunity? In a new paper, we show that the country's pioneering role in mass education was key to its rise in intergenerational mobility from 1850 to 1950. "America's Rise in Human Capital Mobility" with Harriet Brookes Gray & Hugo Reichardt

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🚨 🚨 NEW — we New America Ed did some national polling on eliminating U.S. Department of Education and some of the actions taken by Trump, Elon, & Elon’s goons. And guess what? American voters don’t agree!! Read more: newamerica.org/education-poli…

"We estimate causal effects of 121 graduate degrees on log earnings." NEW in NBER, by Joseph Altonji and Zhengren Zhu: nber.org/papers/w33530

In a court filing Monday, an unnamed analyst who was laid off from the Education Department and worked on the College Scorecard writes: "...the College Scorecard will become outdated and of limited to no value because no new data will be collected, analyzed, and displayed."

📢New working paper with Kirill Borusyak: "Optimal Formula Instruments"! We derive the most powerful recentered IVs for treatments given by complex formulas, and propose an algorithm for approximating them in practice This approach yields *huge* power gains, relative to a

In this article, The Michigan Daily explores the homelessness crisis in Ann Arbor & Washtenaw County, speaking with local advocacy leaders & U-M researchers like Poverty Solutions' Jennifer Erb-Downward. myumi.ch/NrmpE #Homelessness

Congrats to Yinger Yang (MIRS ’25)! 🎓 Her paper—now accepted by the British Journal of Sociology of Education—examines how Chinese families weigh risk & value when choosing new joint-venture universities, introducing “pragmatist agency.” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…