I am very angry about things today but at least there’s this video of my dreaming beagle hopefully it brings you some joy

Racial Disparities and Black Parents’ School Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment - The Urban Review Nearly half of Black parents have access to public school choice, but choice may not provide equitable and supportive school environments. Qualitative research documents Black parents worries that majority-White schools with more resources and higher test scores may over-discipline, underestimate, and exclude their children. Yet large-scale studies rarely examine what Black families desire in potential schools, including how they navigate potential tradeoffs between high school quality and denigrating school racial climates. This survey experiment examines the extent to which test score gaps and suspension gaps between Black students and their non-Black peers deter Black parents from choosing schools with higher overall test scores and lower overall suspension rates. We randomly assign a large, national sample of Black parents (N = 1,677) to examine a school profile vignette where the school has overall high academic achievement and low suspensions rates but includes either one, both, or neither academic and discipline gaps to assess how test score and suspension disparities affect Black parents’ school preferences and perceptions. We find that racial disparities in student discipline and academic outcomes, on average, diminish Black families’ desires to enroll in high-achievement schools and their perceptions of student belonging. These findings align with qualitative research showing that well-resourced, high-achieving schools are less appealing to Black families when they marginalize Black students and that schools’ unequal punishment of Black students shapes Black parents’ evaluations of potential educational spaces.

New research by Todd Hall, Jeremy Prim, @drjae.bsky.social, and me:

Black families are 10 percentage points less likely to choose an otherwise high-quality school when it has large racial disparities in test scores and student discipline.

Read the paper: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

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Call for papers for the 2026 AI in social science conference: submit by May 1. Conference will be held October 8-9, 2026 at the University of Chicago

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at the University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1!

The conference will be held October 8-9 in Chicago, IL, USA.

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i think so!! thanks Josh- @andrewmcamp.com if you're willing/interested in an APPAM panel would you send me a brief description of the paper?

or a panel on enrollment loss over time across LEAs/how families' decide to stay in public schools

Is anyone thinking about submitting to APPAM this year a project on school segregation/composition or on high schools? I have an abstract that would fit nicely on a panel (but don't quite have the bandwidth to put a panel together myself)

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

My advisee just shared with me this piece on his former advisor as a research assistant. It's hard not to get upset/angry thinking about the long-term negative consequences of all the changes to higher ed these past few years, both the academic and the human.

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Happening now!

Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement Omar Wasow∗ Jacob M. Grumbach∗ April 1, 2026 Abstract What precipitates the collapse of seemingly durable social orders like Jim Crow? During the 1920s, approximately 5,000 “Rosenwald Schools” were built across the rural South through a partnership between philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and Black communities who raised matching funds, donated land, and petitioned local governments. Local elites saw vocational training that would preserve the racial order. We argue Black educators used this accommodationist cover to build veiled capacity: organizational infrastructure for collective action behind a veil of compliance. Counties with more Rosenwald Schools show greater civil rights protest in the 1960s. Mediation analysis reveals that pre-existing social capital predicted protest through Rosenwald teacher placements, not enrollment. Instrumental variable models suggest the effect is not driven by community selection. Moving from no Rosenwald teachers to the 75th percentile predicts 45% more protest. The political effects of education may depend less on what elites intend than on what educators build where elites cannot see.

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement"

The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

📄Published Today in Nature:

500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social).

Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me...

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Just signed up for this @aefpweb.bsky.social session with @brhkim.bsky.social! Register here 👉 aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...

Webinar announcement titled "Dialogues on AI in Education," featuring a session on accelerating education research with AI. Scheduled for Thursday, April 2, 2-3 PM ET. Includes a photo of a person speaking and a "Register Today" button.

Join us on April 2 at 2 PM ET for Accelerating Rigorous Education Research with AI Agents: An Introduction to the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework (DAAF) facilitated by Brian Heseung Kim, Ph.D., Founder & Chief Data Scientist, Open Augments. Register: aefpweb.org/ev_calen...

Congrats, Riley- super news!! Missed the chance to connect at AEFP but hope we can celebrate maybe at APPAM later in the year-

Back to work after a great @aefpweb.bsky.social conference with this dope mug

The Political Consequences of Mass Repatriation (Forthcoming Article) - What happens when a country’s electorate suddenly expands by hundreds of thousands of new voters? This study examines the political impact of the mass arrival of repatriates from Algeria to France. Using this quasi-experiment, I demonstrate that their arrival caused significant changes in the French electoral landscape. In areas of exposure to their arrival, they increased the French electorate and reshaped the vote for right-wing parties. Furthermore, their presence influenced candidates’ electoral strategies, causing all candidates to shift their electoral manifestos towards pro-repatriate stances. This significant historical event influenced French political life, reshaping electoral dynamics and political strategies in France.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Political Consequences of Mass Repatriation" by Edoardo Cefalà.

4yo Sid has been testing insults a lot these past few months and this morning I got called an “ordinary person”

Excited and honored to be part of the team of new lead editors for the journal Education Finance and Policy @efpjournal.bsky.social. Sponsored by @aefpweb.bsky.social, we strive to publish rigorous papers on all levels of education policy to make improve outcomes for students

It is always a delight to be in community with the @aefpweb.bsky.social community! This conference was extra special with the chance to check out some Chicago museums with my fam. If we didn’t get a chance to talk or connect please reach out! Would love to hear folks’ feedback on how AEFP26 went.

Happy #AEFP2026 Day 2!

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"University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization"

Safe travels to #AEFP2026! Make sure you are ready - download the app or online program to access the schedule, important details, and more! virtual.oxfordabstra...

Final shout out too my awesome doctoral students on this project, Awais Syed and Xun Zhang. Be on the look out for their exciting research these next few years (including at AEFP)!

6/6 As the kid of immigrants, I reiterate again how important this work is to me- and hope it resonates for many of y'all in Chicago this week, too. As I've grown older, I've realized more how the process of navigating multiple cultural worlds as a 2nd gen has drastically shaped my experiences.

5/ In the study we also predict students' long-term outcomes with the measure (e.g., mental health, academic success, substance abuse). Won't give up too much, but hope some of y'all will spend some time to hear about our work!

4/ We also think it demonstrates face validity. Here's a figure from our presentation on 3/19 10-1130 (2.13)

3/ Our acculturation measure can be applied in a variety of contexts- we do so for a sample of K-12 and postsecondary adolescents. (We believe) It's also more nuanced than some existing measures- it's continuous and can tease out variation across immigrant generations (itself a widely used proxy).

2/ It's a project that both feels important more broadly in the current political climate and also to us personally as international/immigrant-origin scholars.

Also, we get the chance to apply cool machine learning techniques to really rich data to create a new measure of acculturation.

1/ Safe travels to all heading to @aefpweb.bsky.social 2026! There are so many awesome panels this year.

If you have time, please drop by the paper (2.13) & poster session where my PhD advisees present new work we're super excited for about immigrant-origin youth and their acculturation in the US.

Congratulations to all our #AEFP2026 Award Winners!