Jaymes Pyne

Engagement · Punishment · Inequality

In the Media

Selected coverage and interviews about my research—much of it on community responder programs and emergency mental-health response, alongside earlier work on school transitions, discipline, attendance, and graduate student debt.

2025

2024

2023

A Humane Answer to Mental Health Emergencies Interview · Harvard Data-Smart City Solutions · March 1

2022

Deploying Mental Health Workers for Low-Level 911 Calls May Lower Crime American Association for the Advancement of Science · June 13
Sending Health Care Workers Instead of Cops Can Reduce Crime Interview · Scientific American · June 9

2021

What Should Kids Be Doing This Summer, Really? Los Angeles Times · June 14
School House Rocked Stanford Magazine · March

2020

A 30-Minute Intervention That Produced Significant Improvements The Marshall Memo · December 21 · subscription
“Summer Slide” Meets COVID-19 Podcast · Stanford School’s In · August 24
Graduate Student Debt Is Growing but Stratified The Society Pages · February 19

2019

The Growing Burden of Graduate Student Debt Interview · Research Minutes Podcast, University of Pennsylvania · November 21

2017

Madison Pre-K Benefits Student Behavior and Literacy Wisconsin Public Radio · December 26

2016

Op-Eds & Public Writing

How to Get Cops Out of the Mental-Health Business Thomas S. Dee and Jaymes Pyne. The Wall Street Journal (2022)
Why Student Absences Aren’t the Real Problem in America’s ‘Attendance Crisis’ Jaymes Pyne, Elizabeth Vaade, and Eric Grodsky. The Conversation (2021)
Student Absences Aren’t the Problem Jaymes Pyne, Elizabeth Vaade, and Eric Grodsky. Wisconsin State Journal (2021)
Boys Enjoy Educational Advantages Despite Being Less Engaged in School Than Girls Jaymes Pyne. Brown Center Chalkboard, Brookings Institution (2020)
Advanced Degrees Bring Higher Starting Salaries—but Also Higher Debt Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky. The Conversation (2020)
African Americans Take on More Debt for Grad School—and the Payoff Is Complicated Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky. The Conversation (2020)