Matthew Di Carlo

Matthew Di Carlo is a senior research fellow at the non-profit Albert Shanker Institute in Washington, D.C. His current research focuses on education policy, including school segregation, school finance, testing and accountability, and teacher compensation. His other projects include research on cross-national political attitudes, work and occupations, and social stratification/inequality.

Matt has a B.A. from Fordham University, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University.

E-mail: mdicarlo [at] ashankerinst.org

Current Projects

• The School Finance Indicators Database
• School Segregation in Large Urban Districts
• Testing and School Accountability
• Attitudes Toward Welfare, Inequality and Taxation in Cross-National Perspective
• The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education
• Teacher Segregation in Large Urban Districts

Selected Publications

• Di Carlo, Matthew, Wysienska-Di Carlo, Kinga, Fenelon, Ezechiel, Flood, Kirstyn, Milborn, Emilee, and Rodriguez, Claudia. 2021. Public and Private School Segregation in New York City. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, and Weber, Mark. 2021. The Adequacy of School District Spending in the U.S.. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, Schneider, Lauren, and Weber, Mark. 2021. The Adequacy and Fairness of State School Finance Systems (third edition). Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, Schneider, Lauren, and Weber, Mark. 2021. State School Finance Profiles 2017-18. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, Schneider, Lauren, and Weber, Mark. 2020. State School Finance Profiles 2016-17. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Baker, Bruce D., and Di Carlo, Matthew. 2020. The Coronavirus Pandemic and K-12 Education Funding. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, and Weber, Mark. 2020. The Adequacy and Fairness of State School Finance Systems (second edition). Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Di Carlo, Matthew, and Jama, Bilan. 2019. School Segregation by Race and Ethnicity in the D.C. Metro Area. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, and Weber, Mark. 2019. School Finance and Teacher Pay Competitiveness. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, and Weber, Mark. 2019. The Adequacy and Fairness of State School Finance Systems. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Di Carlo, Matthew, and Cervantes, Klarissa. 2018. The Collection and Availability of Teacher Diversity Data: A Survey of 51 State Education Agencies. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Di Carlo, Matthew, and Wysienska-Di Carlo, Kinga. 2017. Public and Private School Segregation in the District of Columbia. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Di Carlo, Matthew. 2017. "Value-Added in Teacher Evaluations." In Greene, Jay P., and McShane Michael O. (eds.) Failure Up Close: What Happens, Why It Happens, and What We Can Learn from It. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Wysienska-Di Carlo, Kinga, and Di Carlo, Matthew. 2016. "Self-interest and Welfare Attitudes in Poland." In Slomczynski, Kazimierz, and Wysmulek, Ilona (eds.), Social Inequality and Life Course: Poland's Transformative Years, 1988-2013. Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
• Wysienska-Di Carlo, Kinga, Di Carlo, Matthew, and Quintero, Esther. 2016. Teacher Segregation in Los Angeles and New York City. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Di Carlo, Matthew. 2015. The Evidence on the "Florida Formula" for Education Reform (policy brief). Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Albert Shanker Institute. 2015. The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Di Carlo, Matthew. 2014. “The Future of Value-Added: From Whether to How.” In Hess, Frederick M., and McShane, Michael Q. (eds.), Teacher Quality 2.0: Toward a New Era in Education Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Wysienska-Di Carlo, Kinga, and Di Carlo, Matthew. 2014. Attitudes toward redistribution and the welfare state in Poland (policy brief). Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
• Di Carlo, Matthew. 2012. “How to Use Value-Added Measures Right.” Educational Leadership 70(3), p. 38-43.
• Jonsson, Jan O., Grusky, David B., Di Carlo, Matthew, and Pollack, Reinhard.  2011.  “It’s a Decent Bet that our Children Will be Professors Too.” In Grusky, David B., and Szelenyi, Szonja (eds.), The Inequality Reader, Second edition.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
• Jonsson, Jan O., Grusky, David B., Pollack, Reinhard, Di Carlo, Matthew, and Mood, Carina.  2011.  “Occupations and Social Mobility: Gradational, Big-Class, and Micro-Class Reproduction in Comparative Perspective.”  In Erikson, Robert, Jantti, Markus, and Smeeding, Timothy (eds.), Intergenerational Mobility Within and Across Nations.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Di Carlo, Matthew. 2011. The Evidence on Charter Schools and Test Scores (policy brief). Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.
• Jonsson, Jan O., Grusky, David B., Di Carlo, Matthew, Pollack, Reinhard, and Brinton, Mary C.  2009.  “Micro-Class Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries.”  American Journal of Sociology 114(4), p. 977-1036.
• Weeden, Kim A., Kim, Young-Mi, Di Carlo, Matthew, and Grusky, David B.  2007.  “Social Class and Earnings Inequality.”  American Behavioral Scientist 50(4), p. 702-737.