Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston | By Beth E. Schueler (Doctoral candidate in Education), Joshua S. Goodman (Harvard Kennedy School), and David Deming (HGSE). A policy brief based on their research findings, which "provide encouraging evidence that accountability-driven improvement of chronically underperforming districts is possible."

Awardee | John Marshall, Ph.D. candidate in Government, is a recipient of the Midwest Political Science Association's 2016 Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for Best Paper in Comparative Politics for his paper, "Information acquisition, local media, and electoral Accountability: When do Mexican voters punish Incumbents for high homicide rates?" Marshall will join the faculty of Columbia University in July as Assistant Professor of Political Science. Learn more about his work at his homepage. To read the award commendation...... Read more about John Marshall receives MPSA Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for Best Paper in Comparative Politics

Awardee | Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) is the recipient of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) Tribute to Black Men Faculty Award in recognition of his "exceptional and lasting contributions to the black community at Harvard College." Jack will be a Junior Fellow in Harvard Society of Fellows (2016-2019) and then joins the Harvard faculty (beginning 2019) as Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Shutzer Assistant Professor with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

International Business Times | Discusses new research by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy, and Paul Secunda, a law professor at Marquette University, who find that employers' tactics to influence the political behavior of workers, now legal as a result of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, have also proved effective.