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Andrew Penner

@andrewpenner.bsky.social
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Professor of Sociology and administrative data infrastructure enthusiast at UC Irvine. My book (Schooled & Sorted) examines the role of categorization in education and how we can create more egalitarian categories.

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Reviewer 2's comments: Is the Haaland's Man City employment evidence of the intergenerational transmission of firms? Is the Sørloth's both being strikers evidence of micro-class mobility? What about mothers (and daughters)? Does evidence from Norway generalize to other countries?
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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Sometimes (human/animal) social groups split into two (or more). Team departures in corporate firms, political party splits, religious schisms, software forks, etc. Let's study this. I hire a predoc or a postdoc on social group splits. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/events/...
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Call for Applications AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc
AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc Application 2026AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc Application 2026Research Assistant job application for Research Group on Social Group Splits at AxPo, Sciences Po, Paris...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My two cents: everyone studying and making education policy should know education history. Since that seems unlikely, I’ll settle for requiring Groundhog Day: nearly every “new” reform has already been debated, tried, renamed, or memory-holed.
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
NEW: Corshelle Jenkins was falsely charged with a crime + a warrant issued for her arrest. It was clear mistaken identity but a judge said there were no available lawyers for her. The charge would stay + she had no way to fight it She's 1 of 1000s in Oregon trapped in criminal cases without lawyers
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Falsely charged with a crime, no way to fight it: inside Oregon’s court crisis
An attorney shortage has left thousands trapped in criminal cases without lawyers. One wrongfully accused woman had no choice but to wait
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Emily Penner @emilykpenner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Interested in some highlights from our latest paper about the effects of Ethnic Studies while it scales district-wide? Our friends at EdWorkingPapers have you covered. edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
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Cultural Relevance at Scale: The Effects of an Ethnic Studies Expansion on Academic Outcomes
Ethnic Studies (ES) has emerged as a promising approach to address this challenge. By centering the histories, cultures, and lived experiences of communities of color, ES is designed to make learning ...
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We demonstrate that financial cities are increasingly overrepresented in national and local top earnings and that earnings for financiers in these cities explain 28% of this growing disparity.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I am so excited for what this will mean for evidence-based education policy in Oregon and the opportunities it will create for Oregon kids! graduate.lclark.edu/live/news/58...
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Ben Bowman Joins L&C as Senior Fellow
Bowman will work closely with Graduate School leadership and faculty and with partners across the state to scale the school’s impact and expand the use ...
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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18/04/2026
Elsewhere on that thread was the point that blaming drivers gets politicians and traffic engineers off the hook.
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Emily Penner @emilykpenner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Some good news: SFUSD's high school Ethnic Studies course has substantial academic benefits when implemented district-wide. New research by @birajbisht.bsky.social, Sade Bonilla, Grace Kim, and myself just out today in @aeraedresearch.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.3102/0002...
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 19/03/2026
Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you, putting 100+ songs online for the first time.
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Inside a Gold Mine of Texas Prison Music
Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.
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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 19/03/2026
Happening today! An entire @aefpweb.bsky.social panel on "Climate Change and Education" #AEFP2026 Don't miss @emilykpenner.bsky.social @andrewpenner.bsky.social & many others at session 3.10 in St. Gallen 3. Grace will be presenting our WP: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1238
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I know that this is not the thing I should be wondering about, but can you tell whether there were multiple trips to Japan (are there date stamps) or if any of the European visits are linked? And the dearth of visits to the southern hemisphere is also striking. Very cool work on this!
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If you want better student outcomes, scrap the chromebooks & upgrade the HVAC.
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A computer on every lap? NC schools rethinking one-to-one device access.
Cost to replace laptops and doubts about learning retention have NC districts questioning practice of assigning a device to each student.
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Christopher Cleveland @christocleve.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
@mattbarnum.bsky.social of @chalkbeat.org highlights our research about the relationship between students’ gifted and special education identification and family income. Higher income -> gifted education Lower income -> special education There’s a lot to ponder about why this happens.
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Aaron Ainsworth @ajainsworth.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’m really glad to see that our paper is now out at Ed Researcher! We examine turnover among the half of school employees who are not teachers to understand how their turnover compares. Using Oregon data (2007-23) for all public school employees, there are 3 new patterns that we document: A 🧵
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Revolving School Doors? A Longitudinal Examination of Teacher, Administrator, and Staff Contributions to School Churn - Emily K. Penner, Yujia Liu, Aaron J. Ainsworth, 2026
Non-teaching staff comprise over half of all school employees, and their turnover may be consequential for school operation, culture, and student success, yet w...
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I love how this reframes what our goals are💜 A thing we have discussed in my classrooms recently is how LLMs don’t help us achieve these goals, which are what we want to focus on together. I haven’t been using the language of absolute goods to make this point, but am going to start doing so!
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I have found myself thinking about this line a lot recently.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Students from high income families get more 504 supports, while students from low income families are more likely to be in special education. Working paper is available at:
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School-Based Disability Identification Varies by Student Family Income
Family income shapes school disability supports: high-income students receive more 504 accommodations and low-income students more special education services.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Full paper is available here
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Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income
Students from families in the top income percentile are more than 5 times as likely to be identified for gifted programs as students from the bottom percentile.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
In a new working paper, my collaborators and I show that which students are identified as gifted and talented varies substantially by family income, and that these differences remain even after accounting for students’ test scores.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Yet one more way that we are failing children.
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
New episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social, featuring research by @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, @emilykpenner.bsky.social, and Andrew Penner.
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#205 Schools as Sorting Machines
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We subsequently looked at a few of the images I have published, but none were deemed as cool as the Banff data🙃
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Kiddo was incredulous and excited when I noted that making pictures to help people understand the world better was my job, and said I could publish this. Kiddo then suggested a division of labor where they would bring me other tidbits like this for me to publish😍
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Baby’s first data visualization—was reading a book about the Banff wildlife crossings and wanted to understand the preferences of different animals.
Bar chart of Banff animal over and underpass crossing data.Table from book that inspired figure (Banff animal over and underpass crossing data).
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David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Fascinating work by Deven Carlson, @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, James Carter, @rachelmarisa.bsky.social, Vitali Radsky, and Andrew McEachin on both the potential of school choice for the purpose of desegregation and the disappointing reality that most school choice systems tend to exacerbate segregation
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 16/08/2025
The Power of Attorney flourished when more Americans saw incarcerated people as more than their crimes. Their career would be unthinkable today: Leaving prison under armed guards to play hundreds of concerts and record in major studios.
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The Prison Soul Band That Opened for Stevie Wonder
The band The Power of Attorney flourished when more Americans saw incarcerated people as more than their crimes.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
For me as a graduate student, @isa-rc28.bsky.social modeled the kind of large-scale, big team, data intensive, methodologically rigorous, theoretically meaningful research that I aspired to do, and so it was especially meaningful to have our work recognized by this award!
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
As @oliviergodechot.bsky.social notes, in some ways this could be seen as an example of "big" science: coauthors: 29 years it took: 9 countries: 12 pages (w/ appendices): 111 observations: 1,164,687,821 But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
So excited to receive this award on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and 27 other coauthors!
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 27/07/2025
Every jailhouse lawyer knows Dee Farmer’s name, even if they don’t know who she is. What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.
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In Prison, She Changed Constitutional Law. Meet the Trans Woman Behind the Case.
Farmer v. Brennan is one of the most cited Supreme Court cases of all time. Few people know just how revolutionary Dee Farmer was.
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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!
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Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why
Immigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste.
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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
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Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature
Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
And you can read more of our thoughts at The Conversation.
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Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why
Immigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The paper is available at Nature.
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Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature
Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Very excited for the latest paper from the international administrative data network I am a part of! Led by @aresherman.bsky.social we show that 75% of pay differences between immigrants and native-born workers arise because of sorting into different jobs, with 25% due to unequal pay within jobs.
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NBER @nber.org · 31/05/2025
Universal school masking reduced weekly COVID-19 deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. 50 percent of districts removed mask requirements by spring 2022 contributing to 9 percent of COVID deaths that year, from Guzman, Imberman, Filosa, Kilbride, and Malkus www.nber.org/papers/w33849
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Rachel Fish @rachelefish.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
AERA: I'm looking forward to sharing a paper co-authored with @alexfreidus.bsky.social and @ericaoturner.bsky.social on how families of disabled children made school choices during the pandemic. Should be a stellar symposium on school choice for marginalized families! 8am Sunday in Meeting Room 712.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I love this assignment so much and can’t wait to use it (with attribution) the next time I teach Sociology of Education!
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This made my day, and I love these answers so much! I tell my students that one of the reasons that I remain an optimist is because of how thoughtful and creative they are. Looking forward to seeing what else your students come up with 💜
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
So excited to present some great undergrad honors theses from UCI LIFTED students at #psa2025 Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and to the session organizers who helped make this happen!
Roundtable attendees watch a presentation on a laptop.Roundtable attendees watch a presentation on a laptop.
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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Okay, but how do you feel about steakholders? I mean, nobody can get upset about researchers who want to communicate with folks carrying around slabs of red meat, right? 🥩
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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Allow me to nerd out a bit about the stats in our recent PNAS paper... To make this graph, we calculated a 100-by-100 grid of the average proportion of peers in each income percentile for students in each percentile (i.e., average peer income distributions for each student percentile). [1/n]
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What I keep turning over at 3am: How do we design an education system that cultivates people to have the courage to stand up, and stand together, for something greater than themselves?
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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
What California needs now is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. That's why I'm running for Governor. katieporter.com
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Katie Porter for Governor | Official Campaign Website
What California needs is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. Join our team today to help Katie Porter stand up to Donald Trump and lower costs for Californians.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!
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Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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