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The American Dream Abides

May 15, 2017

National Review | By Scott Winship (PhD '09).  Social mobility is still growing strong in the Land of Opportunity, Winship writes. Scott Winship is an honorary adviser to the Archbridge Institute, a new think tank focused on economic mobility. He currently works as project director for the Joint Economic Committee in the Office of Vice Chairmain Senator Mike Lee.



Inherent Flaws

May 15, 2017

Inside Higher Ed | By Natasha K. Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education. The author of a new book about diversity and admissions reflects on helping her son apply to a private school while she was reviewing applicants to a graduate program.



The Culprits Behind White Flight

May 15, 2017

The New York Times | By Leah Boustan (PhD '06), Professor of Economics, Princeton University. Boustan is the author of Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016).



Taxation With Patriotism

May 6, 2017

PBS The Open Mind | Vanessa Williamson (PhD '16), a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, talks about her new book Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017).



Why did Trump win? More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.

May 8, 2017

Washington Post | By Bernard L. Fraga, Sean McElwee, Jesse Rhodes, and Brian Schaffner. Bernard Fraga (PhD '13) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University.



Tax Policy

April 18, 2017

CSPAN Washington Journal | Vanessa Williamson (PhD '15) talked about her book, Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017). (Video + transcript)



How “the community” undermines the goals of participatory democracy

June 5, 2017

Work in Progress | By Jeremy R. Levine (PhD '16), Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies, University of Michigan. Discusses the findings of his academic research, "The Paradox of Community Power: Cultural Processes and Elite Authority in Participatory Governance, published earlier this spring in Social Forces. 'Work in Progress' is a public blog of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for 'short-form sociology' on the economy, work, and inequality.
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Column: How much do the poor actually pay in taxes? Probably more than you think.

June 8, 2017

PBS NewHour | By Vanessa Williamson (PhD '15), for PBS NewsHour's 'Making Sen$e series. Vanessa Williamson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and the author of Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017).



Opinion: This summer, let’s plan some difficult campus conversations about race

June 15, 2017

The Hechinger Report | By Natasha Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016).



Learning Deeply at Scale: The Challenge of Our Times (video)

June 13, 2017

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jal Mehta RI ’17 looks beneath the surface of pedagogical methods in American high schools. What does instruction in high schools look like? Where is it better? What can we do about it?

Jal Mehta (PhD '06) is the 2016–2017 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute and Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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