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Aiding the “Doubly Disadvantaged”

August 18, 2016

Harvard Magazine | Sociologist Anthony Jack (Ph.D. '16) explores the diversity of experience among low-income students, and what it means for colleges and professors to support an economically-diverse student body. Jack is a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows and will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in fall 2018.



After Trump: How authoritarian voters will change American politics

April 28, 2016

Vox | Quotes Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and Vanessa S. Williamson (Ph.D. '14), Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Also cites research of Skocpol and Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) showing that wealthy donor networks have largely supplanted the GOP in the share of financial resources available for conservative causes and candidates.



After the Shooting: A small town tragedy becomes the world's conversation [film]

April 6, 2015

UNC Carolina Photojournalism | UNC Chapel Hill professor Christopher Bail (Ph.D. '11) and Towqir Aziz, a Muslim-American student, take part in the film After the Shooting, a series of conversations about the February 2015 shooting of three Muslim Chapel Hill students. Bail is an expert in anti-Muslim sentiment; Aziz was close friends with all three victims.



After months of scandals, new rules in Mexico to tackle corruption

April 25, 2015

Washington Post | Viridiana Rios (Ph.D. '13)



After Common Core, States Set Rigorous Standards

January 27, 2016

Education Next | By Paul E. Peterson (Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government), Samuel Barrows (Ph.'14, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Educational Policy and Governance at Harvard), and Thomas Gift (also a postdoctoral fellow).



AERA Early Career Award in Educational Policy

March 22, 2016

Awardee | Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. in Public Policy '09), Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, is the 2016 recipient of the American Educational Research Association Early Career Award in Educational Policy. Scott-Clayton studies labor economics and higher education policy, with a focus on financial aid, student employment, and programmatic barriers to college persistence and completion. Her work examining the adverse consequences of complexity in the federal student aid application process has contributed to national policy debates about financial aid simplification.



AEFP Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award 2016: Sarah Cohodes

March 17, 2016

Awardee | Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. in Public Policy, '15) is a recipient of the 2016 Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award conferred by the Association of Education Finance and Policy for exemplary dissertation research in education finance and policy. Cohodes is now Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. 



Advice to students: Don’t be afraid to ask for help

March 6, 2020

Harvard Gazette | "At 11:43 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2015, I sent an email. And it changed my life." Anthony Abraham Jack argues we need to recast what it means to ask for help--not a sign of weakness, but a skill to be honed. Jack is Assistant Professor of Education and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.



ACT drops Compass placement tests, acknowledging predictive limits

June 18, 2015

Inside Higher Ed | Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. '09)



Accidental New Yorker: Grandparents Relocate

October 2, 2015

The New York Times | Van C. Tran (Ph.D. '11)

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