Even as California’s Student Suspensions Fell 46% Over the Past 6 Years, the Racial ‘Discipline Gap’ Remained as Wide as Ever The 74 the74million.org/?p=528094

Just out in Demography: Prenatal exposure to stress has a strong negative effect on children’s cognitive ability, but only among poor families. No effect among advantaged families. Link: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Non-paywalled SocArXiv version: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Unexpected Student-Discipline Trends in California: Suspensions Peak in Middle School, Black Kids More Likely to Be Disciplined in Segregated Schools & More The 74 the74million.org/?p=528453

Available now in Econ of Ed Review, w/NaYoung Hwang & Cory Koedel: We find that students do better when matched to the same teacher for consecutive years. Our findings directly support strategies that aim to build stronger student-teacher relationships: authors.elsevier.com/a/1dyld~1QBz22…

A recent study conducted by Mizzou’s NaYoung Hwang and Brian Kisida–looking at more than 15,000 math teachers and 17,000 reading teachers across Indiana–shows that teacher specialization in the elementary grades may lead to lower teaching effectiveness. bit.ly/3vlP9qE

Amazing historical overview of progress against child mortality. Check out South Korea! #globalhealth via Max Roser

Algebra Scores Prompt Second Look at Revamped Regents Exams, via The New York Times nytimes.com/2015/12/01/nyr…

@ThadDomina I'd love to travel back in time and visit UNC's chalkboards.

On Video, a First Grader, a Stumble in Math and a Teacher’s Anger, via The New York Times nytimes.com/2016/02/13/nyr…

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The glass barrier to the upper middle class is hardening brook.gs/22GJ7JQ

Early behavior problems impact long-term educational attainment more for boys than girls:sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/…

One Key to Reducing School Suspension: A Little Respect edweek.org/ew/articles/20… via Education Week

New WP on the multidimensionality of tracking w/ @ThadDomina, NaYoung Hwang, P Hanselman R Lewis, and P Agarwal ssrn.com/abstract=28067…

New paper out on the variation in school effects in post-Katrina NOLA (w/ Richard Welsh and Dominic Brewer): epa.sagepub.com/content/early/…

As New York City's suspension rate falls, some educators see a parallel dip in discipline chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2016/…

Student test scores: How the sausage is made and why you should care brook.gs/2aZ7tvu

@ThadDomina Thanks for sharing the syllabus. So many interesting articles! I wish I could attend your class.

The problem with measuring effects of delinquent peers in education—and how to get around it brook.gs/2lwlaYB via The Brookings Institution

Relationships matter for learnings x.com/aera_edresearc…