How the rich use opportunity zones as tax loopholes, student-teacher matching, and Russia’s evolving information strategy.
| How does student-teacher matching affect suspensions for students of color? Students of color—particularly Black and Latino students—face persistent inequities in school discipline. One approach to decrease the use of exclusionary school discipline for students of color is to match students to teachers of the same ethnoracial group. Travis Bristol, Matthew Shirrell, and Tolani Britton discuss their study with data from New York City public schools to see if this approach made a real difference. Read more |
| The rich have found another way to pay less tax “If we’re going to use the tax code to nudge rich people to invest in poor neighborhoods, we need stronger guardrails to direct money to intended destinations and more aggressive oversight—yes, from the Treasury Department and the IRS—to counter the legions of well-paid loophole finders,” argues David Wessel in his latest op-ed. Read in The New York Times |
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