Public Dissemination

Op-Eds

• How is Delaware faring on modernizing school funding?
• New education finance policy brief

Policy Briefs

• Core Responsibilities in K-12 Education Funding: How does Delaware compare? (2024)

Podcasts

• Schooling During the Great Recession: Patterns of School Spending and Student Achievement (AERA podcast)
• Fiscal Federalism and K‑12 Education Funding: Policy Lessons from Two Educational Crises (AERA podcast)
• New E4E podcast — Episode 4
• Sold a Story, Episode 14: The Cuts (APM Reports, 2025)

Media Mentions

• Math scores fell in nearly every state, and reading dipped on national exam (New York Times, 2022)
• Why reopening schools in minority neighbourhoods is hard (The Economist, 2021)
• The racist idea that changed American education (Vox, 2023)
• Achievement gaps matter, even if all students are learning (Washington Post, 2016)
• The numbers that explain why the teachers are in revolt (New York Times, 2018)
• COVID‑19 pandemic aid more than $300 billion short for dealing with student learning loss (USA Today, 2022)
• Four in five students say their education suffered during lockdown (Forbes, 2022)
• The college‑town achievement gap (The Atlantic, 2017)
• Money, race and success: How your school district compares (New York Times, 2016)
• What budget cuts during the Great Recession did to pupils’ test scores (The Economist, 2019)
• Do school districts spend less money on poor and minority students? (Brookings, 2017)

Brookings Articles

• Has federal crisis spending for K‑12 schools served its intended objectives? (Brookings, 2022)
• What drives increases in state funding for education? (Brookings, 2022)
• Expanding Title I could eliminate K‑12 spending gaps—if the funds are well targeted (Brookings, 2021)
• Categorical inequalities between Black and white students are common in US schools—but they don't have to be (Brookings, 2020)
• What’s in a high school transcript? Measuring high school performance beyond GPA (Brookings, 2025)