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What Title I portability would mean for the distribution of federal education aid

February 23, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Nora Gordon (Ph.D. '02), Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University.



What Trump Supporters Were Doing Before Trump

March 14, 2016

FiveThirtyEight | By Dan Hopkins (Ph.D. '07), University of Pennsylvania. Is Trump's rise a one-off or the opening act in a broader shift in American politics? Hopkins examines new data,  which suggest that  "one key ingredient of a political realignment—a split within one party on a durable, straightforward set of issues — is now in place."



What Trump’s tax returns tell us: The public needs to see more

March 16, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), Fellow in Governance Studies. Williamson is the author of a new book Read My Lips: Why Americans are Proud to Pay Taxes, published earlier this month by by Princeton University Press.



What We Learned About Trump's Supporters This Week

August 13, 2016

The New Yorker | Cites "Theda Skocpol's careful work [joint with Vanessa Williamson] on the Tea Party show[ing] that it was a movement of middle-class Americans, many of whom experienced a shock to their net worth after the 2008 financial crash when the value of their retirement accounts and homes plummeted."

Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard. Williamson (Ph.D. '15) is a Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.



What Works Houston: Houston's Learning Curve

May 21, 2015

Politico Magazine | Ruth López Turley (Ph.D. '01)



What you need to know about ED’s proposed rule on Title I supplement-not-supplant

October 21, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Nora E. Gordon (Ph.D. '02), Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Gordon has testified on the implications of the proposed supplement not supplant regulation before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and (in Sept 2016) the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education (view).



What You Need to Know from the New CBO Income Figures

June 8, 2016

Forbes | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09), Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.



What's Keeping Teens Out of Work?

April 16, 2015

Wall Street Journal | Alicia Sasser Modestino (Ph.D. '01)



What's on Demographers' Minds? Millennials, Immigrants, Poverty

April 30, 2015

Wall Street Journal | Highlights "The Changing Face of Poverty," co-authored by Christopher Wimer (Ph.D. '07)



What's Replacing No Child Left Behind?

December 7, 2015

Harvard EdCast | Martin West (Ph.D. '06, now faculty) discusses the big changes in federal legislation replacing No Child Left Behind, and what it may mean.

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