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An analysis of college admissions data after the end of affirmative action. It reports and links to the new study on enrollment patterns after SFFA v. Harvard, which found high-scoring underrepresented students cascaded into less selective colleges.

A news story on slowing progress against chronic absenteeism. It cites Thomas Dee’s analysis tying Central Valley immigration enforcement to a 22% increase in daily absences.

A K-12 Dive article on how special educators can support students during immigration enforcement. It cites and links a December Annenberg working paper (authors not named in the article) on rising chronic absenteeism among English learners in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Chalkbeat article on the persistent lack of economic diversity at elite colleges. It links the EdWorkingPaper on college enrollment patterns after SFFA v. Harvard for its finding that low- and middle-income enrollment at very elite colleges barely rose.

A Flypaper review asking whether states should pay AP exam fees for every student. It summarizes Md Twfiqur Rahman and M. Cade Lawson's study of North Carolina's universal AP fee waiver.

A Chalkboard piece by Megan Kuhfeld on how gender gaps in math and reading develop in elementary school. It summarizes her working paper with Margaret Burchinal showing boys pull ahead in math while girls' reading lead is set at school entry.

An opinion piece arguing school closures rarely save money and often harm students. It links to the EdWorkingPaper on the long-run effects of school closures on educational and labor market outcomes.

An Education Exchange podcast episode on declining achievement in U.S. public education this century. The page links to the EdWorkingPaper by M. Danish Shakeel, Misty Gallo and Patrick Wolf on achievement inequality across school sectors.

A Flypaper review on whether district school-choice lotteries change segregation between schools. It summarizes Francisco Lagos, Jason Saltmarsh, and Jing Liu's study of centralized-admission lotteries in the 300 largest U.S. districts.

An Education Week article on whether four-day school weeks help districts recruit and keep better teachers. It is built on Cade Lawson's Annenberg working paper using Texas data, which found modest turnover reductions but no improvement in teacher quality.

A news article on a working paper that tracked about 9,000 Boston students and found that absence rates well below the 10% chronic-absence cutoff predicted later below-grade-level test scores. Lead author Tiffany Wu explains the analysis and argues for a lower threshold.

A Flypaper commentary defending Mississippi's reading gains against claims that they are an artifact of third-grade retention. It draws on Sakib Mahmud's working paper on state-mandated retention policies to argue the improvements reflect real learning.

An Education Week overview of emerging research on universal private school choice programs. Part of it reports and links the working paper by Douglas Harris and Gabriel Olivier on how near-universal vouchers affected private school enrollment.

A news story on post-pandemic enrollment declines concentrated in affluent Massachusetts districts. It reports the study by Abigail Francis and Joshua Goodman and an earlier Goodman co-authored paper on sticky disenrollment in Michigan.

Chalkbeat Ideas analysis of why U.S. test scores have declined for about a decade. It draws repeatedly on James Wyckoff's EdWorkingPaper "Puzzling Over Declining Academic Achievement," quoting the paper and the author.

A Chalkboard essay on political climate and free speech in schools and colleges. It cites the EdWorkingPaper on professors' politics in a state university system and the paper on political views and college choice.

A feature on rural school closures and consolidation fights in one state. In summarizing mixed research on mergers, it links to the EdWorkingPaper on the long shadow of school closures for later college and earnings outcomes.

An Education Week story on how far school absences rose during the 2025 West Texas measles outbreak. It reports and links the working paper co-authored by Thomas Dee, quoting him on the toll from precautionary exclusions.

Chalkbeat Chicago story on Illinois removing race-conscious language from its teacher diversity scholarship. It cites the linked 2021 Annenberg working paper on teachers of color to describe the benefits for students.

An AP wire story on the West Texas measles outbreak's effect on school attendance, widely syndicated. It reports the preliminary study by Thomas Dee and Sofia Wilson finding absences in Seminole ISD rose 41%, far more than confirmed cases explain; AP and reprints returned 403/404, so content is from search snippets.