Christopher Cleveland

School-Based Disability Identification Varies by Student Family Income Currently, 18 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive additional supports through the identification of a disability. Socioeconomic status is viewed as central to understanding who gets ...

Excited to share a new EdWorkingPaper on the relationship between family income and disability ID. 🧵

TLDR: Low-income students are much more likely to receive SPED services while high-income students are more likely to get 504 plan accommodations.

edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1374

Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive gifted education. Using education and IRS data that provide information on students and their family income, we show pronounced dif...

Stunning work:

"Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive gifted education ... Under 4 percent of students in the lowest income percentile are identified as gifted, compared with 20 percent of those in the top income percentile."

edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1375

School-Based Disability Identification Varies by Student Family Income Currently, 18 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive additional supports through the identification of a disability. Socioeconomic status is viewed as central to understanding who gets ...

Thank you for highlighting our work!

We have another paper about special education and 504 plan identification by family income: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1374

US Census Bureau Study: Income Affects Disability Identification in US Schools | Christopher Cleveland posted on the topic | LinkedIn As you’re hunkered down for the winter storm, here’s a new, policy-relevant U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies working paper to read, written by a great team. School-Based Disability Iden...

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Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income | Christopher Cleveland If you're looking for something to tune into after the Super Bowl, here's a new working paper! Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students ...

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NEPC Review: Redrawing the Lines: How Purposeful School System Redistricting Can Increase Funding Fairness and Decrease Segregation (New America, September 2025) A New America report argues that states can improve educational equity by redrawing school district boundaries to reduce fiscal and demographic disparities. It models three approaches: blank-slate dis...

New NEPC Review: @newamerica.org report offers a helpful starting point for policy discussions focused on redistricting to address fiscal and demographic inequities across districts.
@christocleve.bsky.social bit.ly/49YimKH

Equalizing Opportunity: Creating a Fair and Transparent Funding… Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission

School funding shapes opportunity, but not always equally.

The Annenberg Institute served as the independent research partner for the @RIFoundation’s Blue Ribbon Commission, informing their recommendations on creating a fairer, more transparent system in RI.

Tariffs, Taylor Swift and tragedy: These stories defined 2025 The search term that garnered the most inquiries in Axios' analysis was Charlie Kirk.

2025. What a year. www.axios.com/2025/12/29/g...

Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

The rise of accommodations is a legit issue to explore, but this graf conflates two different things. *504 plans* are generally for accommodations. IEPs are for needed educational services and *do not* disproportionately go to advantaged students.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!

Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:

"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"

The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.

A JMP 🧵 -->

Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week.

As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).

RI education department releases special education blueprint amid federal funding cuts There are 26,000 students receiving special education services in Rhode Island.

RIDE recently released its "Blueprint & Strategic Plan for Differently-Abled Students’ Success."

I spoke with The Brown Daily Herald about some of my 'kudos' and 'questions' regarding the plan.

www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

@annenberginstitute.bsky.social

Classical High, Providence’s top public school, offers entrance exam in Spanish for first time The school enrolls a smaller proportion of Hispanic students than the district at large, which is 68% Hispanic

I spoke with @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social about Providence Classical High School newly providing its admissions exam in Spanish and the policy considerations involved.

@annenberginstitute.bsky.social

www.oceanstatemedia.org/education/cl...

📰 I provide thoughts about national patterns and policy debates in gifted education for this @thehill.com article.

“One of the central concerns… [is] …which students are going to be able to be identified as gifted.”

@annenberginstitute.bsky.social

thehill.com/homenews/edu...

Please vote for which papers you’d like to see discussed in the next #EdWorkingPapers Webinar!

My paper “Leveraging IEPs to Understand Special Education Services at Scale” (edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1249) is in the “Making Sense of IDEA: The Latest Evidence on IEPs and Special Education” group. 😀

@acooperstock.bsky.social, @dracostruth.bsky.social, and I had a great time on the First Lady Chicago Architecture Cruise during the @asanews.bsky.social Annual Meeting!

I'm on Cambridge's 87 bus right now, heading to the Royal Sonesta to hear some great Economics of Education talks as part of the #NBER Summer Institute.

I'll try to live post as many as possible, so watch this thread!

@nber.org #EconSky

A treemap of terminated research grants at Harvard

We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard.

“This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social

The Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound School ISLE Society for young professionals is proud to announce our annual Summer BBQ, Wed 6/11, 6-10pm, on Cathleen Stone Island. It will be a beautiful evening to support programming for Boston students! Tickets @ link:

www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/...

Graphic of three students walking from one cliff to another using a book bridge held up by a large hand.

Are Students on Track? Researchers find the information collected in student longitudinal data systems are better indicators for on-track college completion than the survey-based self-regulation and cognitive measures.

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#AEFP2025 - Didn't get enough of the special education policy conversation? Stop by 8.03 (New York Room) at 3:30 and hear @christocleve.bsky.social share impacts of new developmental delay legislation on the identification of students with disabilities in Indiana.

A special thank you to Michal Kurlaender and the program committee for all of their work on an excellent conference program this year! We appreciate your time and service. #AEFP2025

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a man says wherever you go there we are ALT: a man says wherever you go there we are

Our BU Wheelock Education Policy Center is going to be everywhere at next week's AEFP conference!

Between our current faculty and PhD students and our alums, we'll be in 20+ sessions.

Here's what we're presenting:

wheelockpolicycenter.org/event/associ...

@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social

I am incredibly grateful for Institute of Education Sciences (IES) support.

Recently, I had the honor of receiving the IES Outstanding Predoctoral Award in recognition of my contributions while a Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellow @ Center for Education Policy Research @harvard.edu ✨

Racial Discrimination in Contemporary America | CEA | The White House Equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, and our country’s diversity is one of our greatest strengths. However, in recognition of the fact that many Americans still face systemic barrie...

This is highly relevant today. While we can debate the merits of specific 'DEI' policies—some may indeed be misguided—it’s undeniable that racial discrimination persists in this country. The evidence is clear for those willing to engage with it!

bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day classroom resources Examine Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy with these lesson plans and videos

PBS @pbsnews.bsky.social News Classroom celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Check out these 6 learning resources w/ your students, inc their thoughts on the meaning behind:
🌟Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
🌟"I Have a Dream"

#MLKDay #EduSky #sschat #apush #MLK bit.ly/3CcU1UK

This is an urgent and deeply important issue.

I had the opportunity to work with Education Resource Strategies on its “Reimagining the Teaching Job” initiative.

I encourage folks to check out the linked resources so we can help teachers to help kids.💡

www.erstrategies.org/tap/reimagin...