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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: The Census Bureau says parts of its website are not being updated because of the federal government shutdown and questions from data users will not be answered "until appropriations are enacted"

census.gov Notification
Due to the lapse of federal funding, portions of this website are not being updated. Any inquiries submitted via www.census.gov will not be answered until appropriations are enacted.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yeah, honestly: “parental rights” are starting to sound more like “property rights.”

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Jul 22

Want to know how the pandemic has reshaped school enrollment patterns in Massachusetts and nationwide?

Here's Education Next's quick and accessible version of our recent working paper:

www.educationnext.org/school-enrol...

@abbyfrancis.bsky.social @educationnext.bsky.social

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Jul 22

Carnegie Mellon University leaders silenced @cmu.edu students who called Trump a rapist claiming they violated civil discourse. I wrote about the disgrace of reprimanding students for rejecting the idea that our campus is a place to engage in civil discourse with rapists. medium.com/@ujuanya/who...

Who is disgracing whom?

There is a Fence located on the central green space of our Carnegie Mellon University campus on which, for more than 100 years, CMU…

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Jun 19

Unfortunately, direct certification-based measures are not widely available yet. We find no easy solutions to measuring school/student economic disadvantage using publicly-available data, and discuss more in this book chapter: books.google.com/books?hl=en&...

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Jun 19

Ungated version here: ideas.repec.org/p/cen/wpaper...

Measuring School Economic Disadvantage

Many educational policies hinge on the valid measurement of student economic disadvantage at the school level. Measures based on free and reduced-price lunch enrollment are used widely. However, recen

ideas.repec.org

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Jun 19

It's great to see this officially in print! I will continue to bang the drum that if you're using FRPL to measure economic disadvantage since 2014-15 (or earlier in some states), you don't know what you're actually capturing... journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Measuring School Economic Disadvantage - Michelle Spiegel, Leah R. Clark, Thurston Domina, Vitaly Radsky, Paul Y. Yoo, Andrew Penner, 2025

Many educational policies hinge on the valid measurement of student economic disadvantage at the school level. Measures based on free and reduced-price lunch en...

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · Jun 5

The White House wants to axe funding programs for:
-English learners
-Homeless students
-Migrant students
-Teacher PD
-Civics ed.
-Literacy
-Arts ed.
-Preschoolers with disabilities
-Adult learners
-Rural schools
-School desegregation
-Alaska/Hawaii Native students
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Trump Wants to Cut More Than 40 Federal K-12 Programs. See Which Ones

The president's detailed budget, released Friday, proposes eliminating dozens of programs as part of a nearly $13 billion cut.

www.edweek.org

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Apr 27

My latest @npr.org story with Marisa Peñaloza, Kyna Uwaeme and Brent Jones:

For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration’s workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air

Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts

For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.

www.npr.org

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Apr 15

Looking for one more paper for the APPAM panel Josh describes here. Please reach out if you have a paper that might fit!

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Apr 14

A couple of us are putting together an APPAM panel on post-pandemic school enrollment/access patterns, broadly conceived.

Let me know if you or someone you know has a paper that might fit this theme.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Apr 14

A couple of us are putting together an APPAM panel on post-pandemic school enrollment/access patterns, broadly conceived.

Let me know if you or someone you know has a paper that might fit this theme.

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Sarah Reber @econsarahreber.bsky.social · Apr 7

Submit papers for two CSWEP sponsored sessions at APPAM next fall. Looking especially for papers on health policy and poverty and income policy, broadly interpreted. Deadline extended to April 15. Pls share!
www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

CSWEP DC

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Bitsy Perlman @bitsyperlman.bsky.social · Mar 25

So, um, some professional news:

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Mar 24

JUST IN: The Census Bureau is ending its telework and remote-work agreements for unionized federal workers and requiring a full return to office for telework employees by April 21 and a return for remote employees within 60 days, according to emails shared with @npr.org

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Mar 23

Paper links:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1138 (working paper)

Peer income exposure across the income distribution | PNAS

Children from families across the income distribution attend public schools, making schools and classrooms potential sites for interaction between ...

www.pnas.org

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Mar 23

For more technical details, including how we handle students with missing income, check out the online appendix.

Or bug me, @michspieg.bsky.social, @andrewpenner.bsky.social, @emilykpenner.bsky.social, or @t-h-a-d.bsky.social to discuss further!

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Mar 23

We use the Uneven Exposure Index to compare peer income exposure across classroom and school peer groups, and across grade levels. Sorting across schools–-in parallel with income sorting across neighborhoods and towns–-is the driver of the uneven peer income distributions we document.

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Mar 23

Note that an even average distribution is a necessary-–but not sufficient–-condition for truly even peer income exposure. There are schools, especially in urban settings, with high concentrations of poverty. But there are low-income students everywhere, not just in cities.

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Mar 23

The logic behind the Uneven Exposure Index is that if students were evenly distributed by income, they would have 1% of peers in each percentile. We sum up the distance from the even distribution across all 100 percentiles, and divide by 2 to derive Uneven Exposure.

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Mar 23

While more than one-quarter of very high-income peers, on average, would need to be swapped for peers in lower percentiles to achieve an even distribution for very high-income students, students around the 60th income percentile have remarkably even peer income distributions.

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Mar 23

We love the transparency of the basic stats, but for a more succinct summary, we created an Uneven Exposure Index. This is interpreted as the min. proportion of peers, on average, that would have to be swapped with peers in other income percentiles to achieve an even distribution of peer income.

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Mar 23

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]

Michelle Spiegel @michspieg.bsky.social · Feb 14

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.

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

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Economic integration within schools is limited, UC Irvine-led study finds

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Emily Penner @emilykpenner.bsky.social · Feb 14

How fitting for this new work on economic inequality in schools to come out @pnas.org on the day I learned about Sandy Jencks' death.

His work documenting widening income inequality, segregation in schools, and equality of opportunity is a cornerstone of this study.

Michelle Spiegel @michspieg.bsky.social · Feb 14

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.
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Michelle Spiegel @michspieg.bsky.social · Feb 14

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.

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · Feb 14

So excited that our new paper, "Peer income exposure across the income distribution," is now out in PNAS!

Great overview (including link to ungated version) from the great @michspieg.bsky.social below.

Michelle Spiegel @michspieg.bsky.social · Feb 14

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.
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