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The Map Wrote the Line: Why I Turned My Research Into a Rap
For most of my career, I've communicated my research the way scholars are trained to — in peer-reviewed journals, at conferences, in reports dense with citations. That work matters. But it reaches the people who already read journals.

Rajah Smart
Oct 112 min read


The 1930s are Still in the Budget: Announcing the Flint Spatial Echo
Today, we are proud to announce the public release of the Flint Spatial Echo, an interactive geospatial tool designed to make visible the hidden structural ties between 1930s federal housing policy and 21st-century school funding.

Rajah Smart
Apr 12 min read


A Critical Examination of Educational Finance: The Tennessee Center for Educational Finance and Policy's Foundational Michigan Research and Strategic Replication in Tennessee
The Tennessee Center for Educational Finance and Policy (TNEFP) operates as a research hub committed to a rigorous, justice-oriented analysis of public school funding systems.

Rajah Smart
Aug 14, 202513 min read
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