Publications

A difference-in-differences study finding that heightened federal immigration enforcement after January 2025 raised daily absence rates among foreign-born students by roughly a third, with effects largest in upper grades.

A study of eight school-university partnerships finding that leaders sustained equity work under anti-DEI pressure by reframing their language, decoupling it from the practices it described.

This report shares lessons and challenges from eight large urban districts that set out to build systems that successfully prepare and support equity-centered school principals.

Diamond on how white supremacy persists in educational organizations, and what the legacy of Brown obscures.

Diamond and Gomez on disrupting white supremacy in schools by redesigning everyday organizational routines.

Lewis and Diamond's study of a well-resourced, integrated high school, showing how racial disparities persist through discipline, tracking, and opportunity hoarding — with new chapters revisiting the school and on what to do.