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How A $15 Minimum Wage Would Affect Workers In New England And Massachusetts

September 15, 2016

WBUR Radio Boston | Guest Anmol Chaddha (Ph.D. '15), Policy Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.



Should Massachusetts Allow More Charter Schools?

September 21, 2016

EdNext Podcast | Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15) and Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West (Ph.D. '06) discuss the Massachusetts charter school ballot question. Cohodes is Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. West is Associate Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.



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.



Tax Me. Please.

October 8, 2016

The New York Times | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. "Asked what bothers them most about taxes, Americans overwhelmingly say the feeling that the wealthy and corporations are not paying their fair share. This is the top issue for nearly two-thirds of Americans. In contrast, 8 percent of Americans say that their biggest concern is the amount they personally pay in taxes. What upsets most people about taxes is not the amount they contribute. They are angry about the amount that the wealthy can avoid contributing."



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.



American Wreckage

October 20, 2016

Radio Open Source | Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, is among the guests joining host Christopher Lyden for a discussion of the fault lines of gender, race, and class revealed in the 2016 election campaign.



Debate Night Message: The Markets Are Afraid of Donald Trump

September 30, 2016

The New York Times | Economic scene column by Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), Professor of Econoimcs and Public Policy, University of Michigan. 



Living in an Extreme Meritocracy is Exhausting

October 26, 2016

The Atlantic | By Victor Tan Chen (Ph.D. '12). The downsides of "extreme meritocracy and the incessant measurement of merit." Chen is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy (University of California Press, 2015).



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).



Voter Discrimination Starts Well Before Election Day

November 1, 2016

Boston Review | By Ariel R. White (Ph.D. '16), Assistant Professor of Political Science, MIT. "Even if voter ID laws don’t dramatically affect minority turnout, we should be concerned about them. They levy a sort of tax on minority voters, who have to work harder to get information from local officials, jump through bureaucratic hoops to get ID they may not otherwise have, and face disproportionate scrutiny from pollworkers," writes White.

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