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Low-income students lose ground

Dec 4, 2020 "Low-income students lose ground" article

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the gaps between low-income and high-income students, according to an editorial in Science magazine by Ford School professor Sue Dynarski, written with Christopher Avery of Harvard and Sarah Turner from the...

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How the federal government could make college free

Oct 13, 2020 "How the federal government could make college free" article

"Kevin Stange is quoted in a recent Market Watch article." (read...

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Making up for lost time for millions of children, U.S. education needs a major rescue effort

May 8, 2020

For most students, the school year ended in March, according to a New York Times commentary by Ford School professor Susan Dynarski. She outlines both the education lost for American students from school closures and what will need to be done to...

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The Pandemic's Effect on Demand for Public Schools, Homeschooling, and Private Schools

September 1, 2021

Tareena Musaddiq, Kevin Stange, Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Joshua Goodman

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically disrupted the functioning of U.S. public schools, potentially changing the relative appeal of alternatives such as homeschooling and private schools. Using student-level administrative data from Michigan and...

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