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Racial and ethnic disparities in STEM achievement appear earlier than thought
Feb 22, 2023
Racial and ethnic disparities in advanced mathematics and science achievement occur as early as kindergarten, much earlier than previously thought, according to a new study led by a Penn State College of Education researcher. The findings suggest that economic and educational policies designed to…
Study finds white children more likely to be overdiagnosed for ADHD
Sep 13, 2022
A new study led by Paul Morgan, Harry and Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow and professor of education (educational theory and policy) and demography, and published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities, examines which sociodemographic groups of children are more likely to be overdiagnosed and…
White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for ADHD, according to a new study
Jul 7, 2022
By Paul L. Morgan, Eberly Fellow, Professor of Education and Demography, and Director of SSRI's Center for Educational Disparities Research, Penn State, for The Conversation White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during…
Disruptive kindergartners are likely to be bullied later in elementary school
May 5, 2022
By Paul Morgan, Professor of Education and Demography, and Director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research, for The Conversation Kindergartners who act out, disrupt classrooms, get angry and argue with their teachers are especially likely to be bullied once they reach third, fourth and…
Black children in Pennsylvania have unequal access to quality preschool
Apr 14, 2022
Black children in Pennsylvania are far less likely than their white peers to have access to quality preschool providers, according to Penn State College of Education researchers. “Gaps in educational resources at a young age are a problem because children’s early learning experiences lay the…
Morgan among top 1% of researchers globally
Feb 28, 2022
Harry & Marion Royer Eberly Fellow and Professor of Education and Demography Paul Morgan is recognized as being among the top 1% of scientists in the world, according to a report from Elsevier BV and Stanford University. Morgan is also a PRI associate and the director for the Center of…
Connecting researchers to policymakers to optimize educational equity
Dec 10, 2021
A partnership between Francesca Lopez, Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy and professor of education in the Penn State College of Education, and Penn State’s Research-to-Policy Collaboration was recently awarded a $250,000 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to connect researchers with hundreds of…
Research finds flawed federal monitoring of students of color with disabilities
Nov 30, 2021
Current federal legislation and regulation that monitors for significant disproportionality in special education may be contributing to children of color with disabilities failing to receive treatments and services to which they are legally entitled, according to a Penn State College of Education…
Penn State educational and health disparities research featured
Oct 27, 2021
This video highlighting work being done at SSRI's Center for Educational Disparities Research and Child Maltreatment Solutions Network features several SSRI cofunded faculty and is currently being broadcast at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association. Research taking place at…
Morgan’s research cited
Sep 22, 2021
CEDR Director and PRI Associate Paul Morgan and his research team’s work discovering children's oral vocabularies by 24 months of age can predict their academic achievement and classroom behavior was cited recently by the editorial Board of the LA Times in their call for universal child care and…
Black women with ADHD start healing, with a diagnosis at last
Jul 19, 2021
CEDR Director and PRI associate Paul Morgan and his research team's IES-supported research was recently cited in a Washington Post story discussing the intersections of race, gender, and disability, found here.
Morgan named AERA Fellow
Jul 13, 2021
CEDR Director and PRI Affiliate Paul Morgan, the Harry & Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow and professor of education (education theory and policy) in the Penn State College of Education, is one of 19 exemplary scholars chosen by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as 2021 AERA…
After School Shootings, Well-Off Families Flee and Enrollment Drops. Low-Income Kids are Left to Confront the Aftermath
Jun 21, 2021
For more than a decade after the 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School in suburban Denver, Frank DeAngelis held a simple promise: He’d stay on as principal until every student class enrolled in the district during the attack reached the graduation stage. Despite the community upheaval and…
Achievement gaps may explain racial overrepresentation in special education
Mar 19, 2020
U.S. school districts may be flagged as over-identifying students of color as having disabilities when other factors, such as achievement gaps, may explain these disparities, according to new Penn State research published in Exceptional Children. Federal legislation and regulations require U.S.…
Underlying factors affect children's early reading and math achievement
Mar 16, 2020
Underlying individual and environmental factors may better explain inter-relations between children’s early reading and mathematics achievement, according to new research that fails to support prior work suggesting that increasing children’s math skills might help increase their reading skills.…
Making School Choice More Equitable in an Era of Rising Inequality by Erica Frankenberg
Mar 11, 2020
By Erica Frankenberg for the Equity Alliance Blog In April 2019, the Education and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing about the legacy of school integration efforts and the federal government’s role 65 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision that…
Morgan to serve on ECLS technical review panel
Feb 19, 2019
Paul Morgan, director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research and PRI affiliate, has been invited to serve on the Technical Review Panel for the new Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2022-23 (ECLS-K: 2023). As a panelist, Morgan will be advising the U.S.…News Topics: Center for Educational DisparitiesEducation
Children’s race, not disability status, may predict more frequent suspension
Jan 23, 2019
Suspension is one way schools discipline students, but the high number of and disparities in suspensions in the U.S. has sparked controversy and policy debate. New research, led by Paul L. Morgan, Harry and Marion Eberly Fellow, professor of education and demography, and director of Penn State’s…
Frankenberg among RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
Jan 10, 2019
PRI associate Erica Frankenberg was once again named among the 2019 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, identifying the university-based scholars in the U.S. who are doing the most to shape educational practice and policy. Simply being included in this list of 200 scholars is an…News Topics: Education PolicyCenter for Educational Disparities
Kindergarten predicts academic achievement across the primary grades
Nov 19, 2018
Identifying factors that predict academic difficulties during elementary school should help inform efforts to children who may be at risk. New Penn State research suggests that children’s executive functions may be a particularly important risk factor for such difficulties. Preliminary findings…
Morgan featured in “New Yorker”
Oct 11, 2018
SSRI co-fund and CEDR director Paul Morgan’s research has been featured in the “New Yorker’s” article, “Georgia’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System.” Morgan’s research focuses on the underrepresentation of children of color in special education. He argues that environmental factors like…
Disparities in education studies most read
Sep 5, 2018
Paul Morgan, director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research, has co-authored several studies that were the most read articles in two different publications. Three of his team’s empirical studies were the most read articles published in Educational Researcher, one of the education field…News Topics: Center for Educational DisparitiesSpecial Education
Morgan authors blog post for Psychology Today
Aug 21, 2018
Paul Morgan, director for the Center for Educational Disparities Research and professor of education and demography, authored a post for Psychology Today's blog "Children who struggle: Understanding and addressing educational disparities."News Topics: Center for Educational DisparitiesPsychology
Frankenberg participates on national panel about school integration
Jul 24, 2018
Erica Frankenberg, associate professor of education (educational leadership) and director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, was one of four panelists who will present "School Integration 2018," a briefing on past progress, present threats and future opportunities, that…News Topics: Center for Educational DisparitiesSegregation
Ties between oral vocabulary and STEM difficulties to be investigated
May 22, 2018
Young children with early vocabulary difficulties in turn often have difficulty with reading during the primary grades. Penn State researchers will investigate if these oral vocabulary difficulties also lead to math and sciences difficulties throughout elementary school in a three-year, $1.5…News Topics: NSFCenter for Educational Disparities