Christina Weiland

Publication

Jacob and Weiland raise concerns about potential bias in traditional retention studies

Jan 30, 2026

In a recent article published in the Journal of Public Economics, University of Michigan professors Brian Jacob, Christina Weiland, and Jordan Berne (who earned his doctorate in economics from U-M), along with Katharine Strunk, dean of the University...

Jacob and Weiland raise concerns about potential bias in traditional retention studies

News

Ford School faculty among the nation's top education scholars

Jan 8, 2026

Professors Sarah Cohodes, Brian Jacob, and Christina Weiland are ranked among the top 200 university-based scholars in the U.S. who had the biggest impact on educational practice and policy last year. This is according to Education Week's 2026 RHSU E...

Ford School faculty among the nation's top education scholars

In the News

Bold Challenges Initiative awards almost $1 million in grants to promote startup research projects at UMich

Oct 3, 2025 Michigan Daily

On Sept. 2, the University of Michigan announced they would award nearly $1 million in Accelerate funding grants to ten University research groups as part of the Bold Challenges Initiative. Accelerate will provide consulting and seed funding of up to...

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News

Ford School team receives Accelerate grant from U-M Bold Challenges Initiative to advance early intervention for children with disabilities

Sep 4, 2025

A team led by Christina Weiland, Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy and co-director of the Education Policy Initiative, and Catherine Asher, assistant research scientist at the Youth Policy Lab, has been selected for the University of Mi...

Ford School team receives Accelerate grant from U-M Bold Challenges Initiative to advance early intervention for children with disabilities

News

What is the secret to better reading outcomes?

May 26, 2025 Education Week

As states have struggled for decades to improve 3rd grade literacy on a large scale, many have enacted policies to hold struggling readers back a year. Education Week recently highlighted Christina Weiland and Brian Jacob's evaluation of Michigan’s “...

What is the secret to better reading outcomes?

News

Federal funding supports critical education research at the University of Michigan

Mar 21, 2025

A new brief from the Ford School's Education Policy Initiative and Youth Policy Lab shows the impact of federally funded education research. The policy-relevant research is developed in partnership with local and state agencies, practitioners, and po...

Federal funding supports critical education research at the University of Michigan

News

Cohodes, Jacob, and Weiland make Education Week’s 2025 public influence rankings

Jan 9, 2025

Education Week has announced the annual 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which highlights scholars who made significant contributions to educational practice and policy in the past year. Three Ford School faculty members have been ran...

Cohodes, Jacob, and Weiland make Education Week’s 2025 public influence rankings

In the News

Opinion | Transitional kindergarten offers lessons for Michigan early learning investments

Jul 24, 2024 Bridge Michigan

Decades of research are clear: attending preschool boosts children’s kindergarten readiness, and the benefits can last into adulthood. To her credit, Governor Whitmer pledged to expand universal pre-K in Michigan to all 4-year-olds as early as this ...

Brian Jacob and Christina Weiland on Trhansitional Kingdergarten

News

Ford School welcomes local and state elected officials to boost collaborative work

Feb 16, 2023

Elected officials from local, county, and state government came to the Ford School to hear about the potential for collaborations with their offices and the School’s faculty, research centers, and students. Fifteen members of the Michigan State Se...

Ford School welcomes local and state elected officials to boost collaborative work

State & Hill

COVID-19 and education: A tough time for all

Dec 19, 2022

Ford School education researchers look for answers By Shaun Manning From early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered public education in the United States. Many schools introduced remote learning for at least part of the 2020-2021 ...

COVID-19 and education: A tough time for all

State & Hill

Building strength

Jun 10, 2021

With new leading-edge research and faces at the school, the Ford School builds depth in two key policy areas. Energy and the environmentEconomics, political science, psychology, and community engagement are at the roots of the Ford School’s interdisc...

Journal Article

Assessing the impact of grade retention: A cautionary tale of exclusion restriction violations

January 15, 2026

Jordan S. Berne, Brian Jacob, Christina Weiland, Katharine O. Strunk

State laws that mandate in-grade retention for struggling readers are widespread in the U.S., and retention at the secondary school level is common in many countries. Researchers often use regression discontinuity (RD) methods to study such policies,...

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Report

Federal funding supports critical education research at the University of Michigan

March 18, 2025

Brian Jacob, Robin Tepper Jacob

This brief provides examples of federally funded research projects led by Education Policy Initiative and Youth Policy Lab-affiliated faculty. This research spans the full educational pipeline—from preschool to career—and has helped improve learning ...

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