Jeremy Singer
@jeremylsinger.bsky.social
Assistant professor of education leadership and policy at University of Michigan-Flint @umflintcase.bsky.social. Views are my own. Please excuse typos.
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Jeremy Singer
@jeremylsinger.bsky.social
· Aug 21
NEW: We conducted a survey of all school leaders in Michigan in 2024-25 about their attendance strategies. Our report offers the most comprehensive evidence thus far of what schools are actively doing to reduce chronic absenteeism. @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social
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Rethinking Tiebout: The Contribution of Political Fragmentation and Racial/Economic Segregation to the Flint Water Crisis | Environmental Justice
Abstract The water crisis that has embroiled Flint, Michigan, since 2014 is often explained via the proximate causes of government oversight and punitive emergency management. While these were critica...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Interesting comparative study of attendance patterns in OECD countries pre vs. post pandemic by @jakeanders.uk and colleagues!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The rise in teenagers skipping school across English-speaking countries following the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from PISA - Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
Many countries are grappling with the long shadow that COVID has cast over their education systems, including dramatic increases in absence from school. This paper presents new insights into this issu...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Interesting comparative study of attendance patterns in OECD countries pre vs. post pandemic by @jakeanders.uk and colleagues!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield won the race for Detroit mayor by a wide margin Tuesday. Her big win was also historic, with Sheffield becoming the city’s first female mayor.
Mary Sheffield is Detroit’s next mayor. Can she influence education?
Detroit’s next mayor says she wants to play a role in addressing education in the city. What can she do?
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November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield won the race for Detroit mayor by a wide margin Tuesday. Her big win was also historic, with Sheffield becoming the city’s first female mayor.
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Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch both say they will play a role in education by partnering with schools to address the social challenges that impede student’s learning
Detroit mayoral election results: Who will best influence education?
Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch both say they will play a role in education by partnering with schools to address the social challenges that impede student’s learning
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November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch both say they will play a role in education by partnering with schools to address the social challenges that impede student’s learning
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It is your right to vote, Wolverines 💛💙! Head to the voting booth today!
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It is your right to vote, Wolverines 💛💙! Head to the voting booth today!
“Parents were very open about what they needed, what they lacked, and we were able to provide that on the spot assistance and support for them“…Most students needed updated immunizations or struggled with transportation.
MSCS leaders say new door-knocking campaigns and school-based attendance staff are improving student attendance. But the official state numbers aren’t in yet.
Could Memphis schools reduce chronic absenteeism for the first time since 2017?
MSCS leaders say new door-knocking campaigns and school-based attendance staff are improving student attendance. But the official state numbers aren’t in yet.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“Parents were very open about what they needed, what they lacked, and we were able to provide that on the spot assistance and support for them“…Most students needed updated immunizations or struggled with transportation.
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What can Detroit’s next mayor do for education? What do Detroiters want from the next mayor? Here’s what you need to know about tomorrow's mayoral election and the candidates.
Detroit’s next mayor could influence education in the city
Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch say they want to partner with local schools to improve student outcomes. Voters decide Tuesday.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What can Detroit’s next mayor do for education? What do Detroiters want from the next mayor? Here’s what you need to know about tomorrow's mayoral election and the candidates.
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Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch say they want to partner with local schools to improve student outcomes. Voters decide Tuesday.
Detroit’s next mayor could influence education in the city
Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch say they want to partner with local schools to improve student outcomes. Voters decide Tuesday.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch say they want to partner with local schools to improve student outcomes. Voters decide Tuesday.
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A few months ago, I started to hear from history teachers that the curriculum materials they’d used for years were being pulled from the market, or they were not being allowed to use them because of political pressures. My investigation of this trend published today: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
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October 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A few months ago, I started to hear from history teachers that the curriculum materials they’d used for years were being pulled from the market, or they were not being allowed to use them because of political pressures. My investigation of this trend published today: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
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This is largely a phenomenon of high income families leaving public schools.
The highest income 20% of districts have lost more public school students than the other 80% combined (lower income districts have largely recovered enrollments).
The highest income 20% of districts have lost more public school students than the other 80% combined (lower income districts have largely recovered enrollments).
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is largely a phenomenon of high income families leaving public schools.
The highest income 20% of districts have lost more public school students than the other 80% combined (lower income districts have largely recovered enrollments).
The highest income 20% of districts have lost more public school students than the other 80% combined (lower income districts have largely recovered enrollments).
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Transportation plays a key role in how families experience school choice. Learn more in Sarah W. Lenhoff (@sarahlenhoff.bsky.social) and Samuel Speroni’s chapter on transportation in school choice systems: livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Transportation plays a key role in how families experience school choice. Learn more in Sarah W. Lenhoff (@sarahlenhoff.bsky.social) and Samuel Speroni’s chapter on transportation in school choice systems: livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...
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School transportation seems like one of those obvious resources that is essential to making public school work, yet it often gets short shrift. I was glad to work with Sam to summarize what we know about school transit usage, offerings, and effects in this @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social chapter.
Transportation plays a key role in how families experience school choice. Learn more in Sarah W. Lenhoff (@sarahlenhoff.bsky.social) and Samuel Speroni’s chapter on transportation in school choice systems: livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
School transportation seems like one of those obvious resources that is essential to making public school work, yet it often gets short shrift. I was glad to work with Sam to summarize what we know about school transit usage, offerings, and effects in this @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social chapter.
A great insight from Sam Hollon and Nat Malkus about predicting chronic absenteeism: if you know whether a student was chronically absent last year, that's almost as good as knowing their attendance through the first half of the year! (87% vs. 91% accuracy)
www.aei.org/research-pro...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A great insight from Sam Hollon and Nat Malkus about predicting chronic absenteeism: if you know whether a student was chronically absent last year, that's almost as good as knowing their attendance through the first half of the year! (87% vs. 91% accuracy)
www.aei.org/research-pro...
www.aei.org/research-pro...
After FL cell phone ban, attendance increased for middle and high school students by about 1.3 days on average
"enforcement of cellphone bans in schools led to...significant improvements in student test scores in the second year...reduce[d] student unexcused absences may explain a large fraction of the gains...more pronounced in middle and high school" www.nber.org/papers/w34388
The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
After FL cell phone ban, attendance increased for middle and high school students by about 1.3 days on average
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It was an honor to interview @dlabaree.bsky.social for this month’s @nepc.bsky.social podcast. I’ve learned so much from Professor Labaree’s writing, and it was a real treat to learn from him through our conversation about recent shifts in education policy. If you have a few mins, give it a listen!
NEPC Talks Education: This month's podcast explores the challenges of navigating education's competing goals, with @cmsaldana.bsky.social and @dlabaree.bsky.social bit.ly/3KUg2vs
NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With David Labaree About Navigating Education's Competing Goals
University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews David Labaree about the fundamental tensions shaping American education, and how recent developments in AI and school...
nepc.colorado.edu
October 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It was an honor to interview @dlabaree.bsky.social for this month’s @nepc.bsky.social podcast. I’ve learned so much from Professor Labaree’s writing, and it was a real treat to learn from him through our conversation about recent shifts in education policy. If you have a few mins, give it a listen!
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How has the #COVID19 pandemic impacted K-12 #students over time? Read assistant professor of #education @jeremylsinger.bsky.social's perspective in this special issue of Teachers College Record. #umflint #research @umflintteach.bsky.social
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October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
How has the #COVID19 pandemic impacted K-12 #students over time? Read assistant professor of #education @jeremylsinger.bsky.social's perspective in this special issue of Teachers College Record. #umflint #research @umflintteach.bsky.social
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New working paper on contemporary child labor in the U.S. and its impacts on school attendance ⬇️
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302
With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302
With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon
Contemporary Child Labor and Declining School Attendance in the U.S.
The United States has experienced a 400% increase in reported child labor violations over the past decade, coinciding with declines in K-12 school attendance and enrollment. We examine the causal rela...
edworkingpapers.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New working paper on contemporary child labor in the U.S. and its impacts on school attendance ⬇️
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302
With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302
With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon
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To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.
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The Detroit school district is considering giving bikes to chronically absent students in other schools.
These Detroit students say free bikes helped address some systemic issues that cause chronic absenteeism
The Detroit school district is considering giving bikes to chronically absent students in other schools.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Detroit school district is considering giving bikes to chronically absent students in other schools.
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The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.
The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort
The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.
n.pr
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.
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Come work with us! We’re really excited about our research on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And we’d be really excited to work with you! Reach out if you have any questions.
Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.
Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.
📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!
Detroit PEER Postdoc Job Description 2025.pdf
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September 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Come work with us! We’re really excited about our research on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And we’d be really excited to work with you! Reach out if you have any questions.
Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.
Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.
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Supporters of the plan said the new budget would help close opportunity gaps for at-risk students and other kids who need additional support, Bridge Michigan reports. (via @bridgemi.com)
Michigan schools budget includes free meals and a big bump in funding for at-risk students
Supporters of the plan said the new budget would help close opportunity gaps for at-risk students and other kids who need additional support, Bridge Michigan reports.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Supporters of the plan said the new budget would help close opportunity gaps for at-risk students and other kids who need additional support, Bridge Michigan reports. (via @bridgemi.com)
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HEP authors @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social were quoted in an article published by @chalkbeat.org, which delves into the problem of chronic absenteeism in Michigan. Read the piece here:
More Michigan kids continue to miss too many school days compared to pre-pandemic years
The state’s chronic absenteeism rate is still higher than it was before COVID, but some districts made big improvements.
bit.ly
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
HEP authors @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social were quoted in an article published by @chalkbeat.org, which delves into the problem of chronic absenteeism in Michigan. Read the piece here: