Casey Cobb is quoted about Connecticut’s Open Choice, an interdistrict program similar to the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) one that is featured.

Casey Cobb is quoted about the incoming selection for education secretary.

Casey Cobb is quoted about the possibility of the Department of Education being dismantled.

Casey Cobb is quoted about student loan forgiveness in Connecticut.

Six projects have been granted UConn’s first-ever seed funding dedicated to research and collaborations the address societal issues such as equity and inclusion. UConn Research recently announced the recipients of the JEDI Research initiative. The awards advance innovative research, scholarship, and creative work on topics contained in the acronym – Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

UConn researchers are key members in a cross-state educational COVID-19 collaboration, co-led by Neag School associate dean Morgaen Donaldson.

Casey D. Cobbs, the Raymond Neag Professor of Educational Policy at the University of Connecticut, and Gene V Glass, a statistician and researcher in educational psychology and social sciences, partner in the new book, Public and Private Education in America: Examining the Facts. This book is part of the ABC-CLIO’s Contemporary Debates reference series.

Are school choice programs contributing to segregation in American schools? The answer is undoubtedly yes, according to a recent research brief published by the National Coalition on School Diversity and written by Casey Cobb, the Raymond Neag Endowed Professor of Educational Policy in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut.

Casey Cobb, a professor at UConn’s Neag School of Education, has interviewed many families about what goes into them choosing whether to send their children to predominantly white suburban schools if they win the lottery.

“What we found was, yeah, race and socioeconomic status, that sort of diversity, does play a role in their decision making,” he said, pointing out that magnet schools are typically more diverse, and that was one of the reasons families tend to seek those schools.

The expansion of a program to allow urban students in Danbury and Norwalk to attend suburban schools in Fairfield County has met a variety of challenges as the wealthier surrounding towns debate whether to enroll the students. In 2021, the state legislature set aside $1.175 million over two years to expand Open Choice – a program that currently serves children in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford – to include Danbury and Norwalk.