I'm a husband, parent, & fan of Vikings, Twins, Wolves & Hogs. I study school choice programs & other ed reforms in my spare time. All posts are my own.
In honor of New Years, I'm counting down my 12 scholarly products released in the past 2 years, usually w/ help from colleagues & students, oldest to newest. 1st up is our finding that more education freedom is correlated with higher NAEP score gains. https://t.co/2StEZSbjXO
On THV11 discussing our new book, The State of Education in Arkansas, with Kristen Scott. Three years after Arkansas LEARNS, the state has undertaken major reforms. The challenge now is translating those reforms into better student learning outcomes.
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University of Arkansas researchers say implementing the LEARNS focus on early literacy will be key. My interview on Channel 5 News
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In case you doubt that SWDs are overrepresented in choice programs, the evidence is in this recent report I co-authored with @jmkristof, @AlexanderWolf6 & Allie Aldis! https://t.co/XveSFEjkca
Kudos to the journalists who produced this balanced & informative article about how "Parents of students with disabilities (SWDs) fear losing Texas’ 'life-changing' school vouchers." I'll now stop complaining that no one is reporting on the over-representation of SWDs in #SchoolChoice programs. @alexanderrusso https://t.co/D3DbipItg9
Congrats to my colleagues @hpatrinos & Kristen Scott on the successful roll-out of their edited book on The State of Education in Arkansas!
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Congratulations to Honors College senior Charis Morash, who successfully defended her Honors Thesis on #SchoolChoice and parental involvement this morning (despite her Faculty Advisor being Patrick Wolf). Great job, Charis!
Pleased to see our boosting-take-up tutoring experiment released in the EdWorkingPapers series @AnnenbergInst. How do we get more at-risk students registered for tutoring? Encourage their parents & make sign-up easy! @hpatrinos@mistygallo2@loeb_susanna
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@BethNetherland@jrphtx@tasb_news@matthewladner@1in5advocacy We know that private school choice programs disproportionately enroll students with disabilities. We are at the front end of understanding why so many parents of students with disabilities are turning to choice programs to serve their child’s special needs. @alexanderrusso
A #2026APPAM panel on administrative burden was short presenters so I pinch hit by again discussing our literacy tutoring take-up rate experiment. I played a double-header! @mistygallo2@hpatrinos
Here is @mistygallo2 doing a terrific job presenting the highlights from our accountability report on the Arkansas Education Freedom Accounts Program for the Arkansas Department of Education at #2026APPAM. @ua_edreform
Was pleased to present the results of our experimental study of how to increase participation in benefit programs at #2026APPAM! Joint work with @mistygallo2 & @hpatrinos@ua_edreform