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About Joao Souto-Maior
I am an educational data scientist who investigates the formation of unequal learning opportunities across multiple stages of the life course and how these disparities might be mitigated.
NBN Episodes hosted by Joao:
January 15, 2026
Subtle Webs
In Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education (Oxford UP, 2025), Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have create…
November 17, 2025
Other People's Colleges
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, E…
September 6, 2023
The Alienation of Fact
Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective…
August 31, 2023
This Is Our School!
Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School!: Race and Community R…
August 25, 2023
Suddenly Diverse
For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At th…
August 13, 2023
The Unteachables
The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (U Minnesota Press, 2023) examines the overrepresentation of Black st…
August 25, 2022
Redefining Geek
Picture a typical computer geek. Likely white, male, and someone you’d say has a “natural instinct” for technology. Yet, after six years teaching tech…
July 28, 2022
The Privileged Poor
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more …