September 25, 2024 – ERS hosted a book talk “The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers” featuring author, Josh Cowen, Michigan State University, Professor of Education Policy and founding director of the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative.

Josh’s deep-dive investigation into education…

The raw data looks inarguably bad: The share of American children missing at least 10 percent of school days nearly doubled over the course of the pandemic, leaving perhaps more than six million more students “chronically…

Princeton University seniors Casey Beidel and Brian Sheng-Kai Li are the recipients of the 2024 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. They will be recognized at Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 24.

Increasing Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Education Policy Among Underrepresented Students, a 7-week program with Jen Jennings was created this summer to help cultivate a racially and economically diverse research pipeline.

Activities included participation in a weekly seminar series, training in multiple research methods…

April 6, 2023 - ERS hosted student event, “Values and Evidence in Educational Decision-Making” featuring guest speaker, Harry Brighouse, Professor of Philosophy of Education, Professor of Philosophy, Carol Dickson-Bascom Professor of the Humanities, and Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison. …

Following the Flint Water Crisis, many states passed legislation requiring schools to measure and remediate lead in school drinking water. In this study, Scott Latham and Jennifer Jennings present new evidence on the level and distribution of…

New York City’s universal prekindergarten (pre-K) program, which increased full-day enrollment from 19,000 to almost 70,000 children, is ambitious in both scale and implementation speed. 

The University's Education Research Section has launched Project ADVISE (Analytics and Data Visualization for International Student and Education).

We hosted a 3-day interdisciplinary institute for 45 New Jersey middle and high school teachers...

In Summer 2020, we initiated our first summer internship program, which provides undergraduates interested in education research with exposure to a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods.