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What Do Parents Think of Their Children’s Schools?

December 13, 2016

Education Next |  By Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide. 

Samuel Barrows (Ph.D. '14) isi a postdoctoral fellow at the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at the Harvard Kennedy School. Paul E. Peterson is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of PEPG. Martin R. West (Ph.D '06), editor-in-chief of Education Next, is associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and deputy director of PEPG.



What Does Free College Mean?

January 17, 2017

Harvard Graduate School of Education | A Q&A with David Deming (Ph.D. '10), a professor at the HGSE and Harvard Kennedy School.

Among the research highlighted in this interview, a study of the Adams scholarship in Massachusetts, by Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15) and Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Oct 2014); and a new paper by Deming and Christopher Walters of UC Berkeley, "The Impacts of Price and Spending Subsidies on U.S. Postsecondary Attainment."



What Does the National Academies' Immigration Report Really Say?

September 22, 2016

National Review | By George J. Borjas, Robert W Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Borjas was a member of the National Sciences of Academy panel, which recently released their report, The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration.
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What explains Ben Carson? The Long Tradition of Black Conservatism

September 10, 2015

Washington Post | By Leah Wright Rigueur



What four types of American nationalism can tell us about Trump voters

February 6, 2017

Washington Post | By Bart Bonikowski (Harvard) and Paul DiMaggio (NYU). Trump appeals to American nationalism, but which one? Based on the authors' research, "Varieties of American Popular Nationalism," recently published in the American Sociological Review.
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What Growing Inequality Means for Our Kids

March 24, 2016

WGBH Greater Boston | Interview with Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy [video: 7 minutes].



What Happens to People Who Get Evicted Over and Over?

March 4, 2016

New York Magazine | Interview with Matthew Desmond about his new book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Desmond also cites work by Harvard colleagues Sendhil Mullainathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics; Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences; and Devah Pager, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy.



What Inequality Looks Like Right Now

March 17, 2017

WGBH Innovation Hub | Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, guests to talk about wealth inequality.



What is Donald Trump's Foreign Policy?

February 4, 2017

Inside Story—Al Jazeera  | Joining the discussion, Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard Kennedy School.



What is the Biggest Misconception About Racism?

October 28, 2015

The Atlantic [video, 3 minutes] | Bruce Western is among those interviewed in this video segment filmed earlier this year at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Also featured: Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, student activist Clifton Kinnie of Howard University, Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, and Tracey Meares of Yale Law School.

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