Policy Reports

Vaccine Hesitancy is an Old Problem in Need of New Ideas (with Cyrus Kosar). Milbank Memorial Fund Blog. February 14, 2022.

Addressing Inequities in the US K-12 Education System (with Nora Gordon). In Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic Economy, Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz, eds., Aspen Economic Strategy Group, The Aspen Institute. December 2021.

Vaccine hesitancy in nursing homes isn’t all politics: An update (with Cyrus Kosar). Brookings Institution Report. August 2021.

Vaccine hesitancy in nursing homes isn’t all politics (with Cyrus Kosar). Brookings Institution Report. August 2021.

American Indians and Alaska Natives are dying of COVID-19 at shocking rates (with Randall Akee). Brookings Institution Report. February 2021.

Race gaps in COVID-19 deaths are even bigger than they appear (with Tiffany Ford and Richard V. Reeves). Brookings Institution Report. June 2020.

Analysis and Commentary: UC Regents Should Consider All Evidence and Options in Decision on Admissions Policy (with Michal Kurlaender and Jesse Rothstein), Policy Analysis for California Education Commentary. April 22, 2020.

Four-Part Series: Federal Aid for Schools and COVID-19 (with Nora Gordon). Brookings Institution. Spring 2020.
-Supporting students and promoting economic recovery in the time of COVID-19
-Schools need flexibility in coronavirus stabilization funds
-How Congress can equitably allocate COVID-19 education aid to states
-Schools need flexible federal aid now. What should Congress do next?

Opportunity engines: Middle-Class Mobility in higher education (with Chenoah Sinclair). Brookings Institution Report. May 2020.

Making California Data More Useful for Educational Improvement (with Meredith Phillips and Jesse Rothstein). In Getting Down to Facts II, Susanna Loeb, ed. September 2018.

Setting the Stage: Trends in Student Demographics and Enrollment in California (with Demetra Kalogrides). In Getting Down to Facts II, Susanna Loeb, ed. September 2018.

Description: Why and how descriptive analysis informs education decisions, A Guide for Researchers (with S. Loeb, S. Dynarski, D. McFarland, P. Morris, S. Reardon), Institute for Education Sciences Applied Research Methods Series. March 2017.

School Vouchers: Promises and Pitfalls, Econofact. March 2017.

Commentary

Op-Ed: Schools need more federal dollars but Title I is not the right tool for the job (with Nora Gordon), The Hill. April 27, 2021.

Op-Ed: Why Congress should take action now for schools to open in the fall (with Nora Gordon), The Hill. July 6, 2020.

Book Reviews and Comments

Comment on “Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century” by Nora Gordon. In Human Capital In History, Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo, eds. 2014.

Review of Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. By Gavin Wright. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Winter 2014.

Review of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985. By Adam R. Nelson. In Journal of Economic History. December 2005.