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The Destructive Legacy of Housing Segregation

May 17, 2016

The Atlantic | By Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07), New York University. Less visible than the rise of economic inequality is the way it has altered America's urban neighborhoods. Two books—Evicted by Harvard's Matthew Desmond and Ghetto by Mitchell Duneier (Princeton)—should help change that, writes Sharkey.



Christopher Jencks: Big Picture Directions for Future Research and Policy on the Problem of Poverty

May 20, 2016

2nd Annual New Frontiers in Poverty Research Conference at Columbia University | Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, and Sheldon Danziger, President of the Russell Sage Foundation, were the keynote speakers at the 2nd Annual New Frontiers in Poverty Research Conference at Columbia University.

Christopher Wimer (Ph.D. '07), Co-Director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia's Population Research Center, spoke about his latest work with Columbia colleagues, "Harnessing the Robin Hood Poverty Tracker to Understand New Dimensions of Poverty in New York City."

View video: Conference begins at 12:35 minute mark. Jencks's session begins at 3:26 hour mark.



Democrats are losing to Republicans at the state level, and badly. Here's why.

August 3, 2016

Vox | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Theda Skocpol. "Faced with a loose-cannon 2016 GOP presidential nominee who disagrees with them on key issues, Charles and David Koch — the two billionaire "Koch brothers" — are directing the vast resources of their political network toward down-ballot races. This should alarm liberals greatly," write Hertel-Fernandez and Skocpol.

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. '16) is an assistant professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University.



Clinton Abandons the Middle on Education

August 14, 2016

Wall Street Journal | By Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West. Most rank-and-file Democrats disagree with the party platform, Peterson and West argue, drawing from a survey to be published next week in Education Next. Peterson is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard. West (Ph.D. '06) is Associate Professor of Education.



Ten-year Trends in Public Opinion From the EdNext Poll

August 16, 2016

Education Next | By Paul E. Peterson, Michael B. Henderson (Ph.D '11), Martin R. West (Ph.D. '06), and Samuel Barrows (Ph.D. '14). Common Core and vouchers are down, but many other reforms still popular, the authors find.

Paul E. Peterson is professor and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School. Michael B. Henderson is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication and director of its Public Policy Research Lab. Martin R. West, editor-in chief of Education Next, is associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and deputy director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School, where Samuel Barrows is a postdoctoral fellow.



Why delaying school start dates is a bad deal for students

September 8, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Martin R. West, Associate Professor of Education at Harvard.



Event video: Askwith Forum: Education and the 2016 Election

October 19, 2016

Harvard Graduate School of Education | An Askwith Forum election panel with HGSE faculty members David Deming, Martin West, Roberto Gonzales, Meira Levinson, and Paul Reville.



Trumpcast: What does Trump’s Victory Mean for Education Policy?

November 10, 2016

EdNext Podcast | Education Next’s Paul E. Peterson (Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government) and Martin West (Ph.D ''06, Associate Professor of Education) talk about what education reforms they expect from President-elect Donald Trump. Will he move on school choice, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, Title I portability, charter schools, or something entirely unexpected? 



Behind "Make America Great," the Koch Agenda Returns with a Vengeance

November 21, 2016

Talking Points Memo | By Theda Skocpol, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, and Caroline Tervo. "At first glance, the victory of Donald Trump suggests that big political money has less clout than imagined in U.S. democracy." Not so, say the authors, whose research has tracked the long-term rise and recent impact of the Koch network. Here they offer their perspective on how the Koch network helped to elect Trump and will now set the policy agenda. "Most media outlets have not noticed that the Koch network is now fusing with the emerging Trump presidency—a situation that leaves citizens in the dark about huge pending policy upheavals in federal programs most American families have long taken for granted." 

Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard. Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. '16) is now Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Caroline Tervo is a junior at Harvard College.



Memo: Federal school finance policy

December 8, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Martin West and Nora Gordon. In the first in a Brookings series of memos on federal education policy, Martin West (Ph.D. '06), Associate Professor of Education at Harvard, and Nora Gordon (Ph.D. '02), Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetwon University, tackle school finance.

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