Media

On this page I will list links to a selection of my recent media appearances and/or blog posts. Most of it will be in Dutch.
Blogs/op-eds
Geef nu de ontwikkeling van kinderen voorrang en laat de scholen open.” De Volkskrant, November 25, 2021.
Nakijken, a weekly sociological recap of the documentary series Klassen for Sociale Vraagstukken (2020-20-  De Volkskrant, January 26, 2020.
Middenschooldebat kan wel wat feiten gebruiken.” De Volkskrant, January 26, 2020.
Verdeling onderzoeksgeld moet eerlijker en directer.” De Volkskrant, June 23, 2019.
Schaf het aanvragen van onderzoeksbeurzen af.” De Volkskrant, October 4, 2018.
De suprematie van de bèta’s: hoe het onderzoeksgeld in Nederland verdeeld wordt.” Stuk Rood Vlees, July 12, 2018.
Mattheüseffecten bij het verkrijgen van NWO-beurzen. Stuk Rood Vlees, April 24, 2018.
Waarom het loon van CEOs zoveel sneller groeit dan bedrijfswinst.” Stuk Rood Vlees, March 9, 2018.
Is more vocational education the answer?” OECD Today, July 19, 2016.
♦ CPB-advies geeft blijk van economische tunnelvisie.” De Volkskrant, June 22, 2016.
♦ Kansrijk Onderwijsbeleid: De economische tunnelvisie van het CPB.” Stuk Rood Vlees, June 20, 2016.
De digitale revolutie van Jaap Dronkers.” Stuk Rood Vlees, April 7, 2016.
Een glazen plafond voor vrouwen in de wetenschap? Verkenning van twee alternatieve verklaringen.” Stuk Rood Vlees, November 24, 2015.
♦ De methodologische tekortkomingen van de CITO-lijst van RTL.” Stuk Rood Vlees, September 18, 2013.
News coverage (last updated September 2020)
♦ September 2020:  NRC Handelsblad interviewed me about inequality of educational opportunities and the Corona crisis.
August 2020: I was interviewed  by Nieuwsuur about learning deficits and the re-opening of schools after the summer break.
♦ June 2020: For Nieuwsuur I participated in an item on how secondary schools responded differently to the corona crisis.
♦ April 2020: I was interviewed on television  by Nieuwsuur and Jeugdjournaal about my research on homeschooling during the Covid-19 crisis.
♦April/May 2020: My research on homeschooling was covered in print by, a.o., NOS, NRC Handelsblad, de Volkskrant, Financieele Dagblad, de Correspondent, Leeuwarder Courant, Metro Belgie, and la Repubblica.
♦ I was interviewed about my research on homeschooling two podcasts: Stuk Rood Vlees and Onder Media Doctoren.
♦ April 2020: I was interviewed by KennisLink about the new datacollection on homeschooling during the Corona outbreak.
January 2020: Interviewed by het Parool about inequality of educational opportunities.
♦ November 2019: I was interviewed about school-to-work linkages by Algemeen Dagblad.
♦ April 2019: I was interviewed about our ASR study on school-to-work linkages by NRC Handelsblad, Het Financieele Dagblad, and Folia.
♦ September 2018: I was interviewed by NRC Handelsblad on the issues that were not discussed at Prinsjesdag.
♦ April 2018: For our study on the Matthew Effect in science funding I was interviewed by
 Nature, Science, de Volkskrant, Trouw, NRC HandelsbladBNR Nieuwsradio, the ScientistPhys.orgFoliaScienceguideChemistry World, amongst others.
♦ April 2018: I was interviewed by
de Volkskrant on segregation in education.
♦ April 2017: In an interview with de Volkskrant I talked about educational inequality and the role of schools.

♦ April 2016: I was interviewed by NRC Handelsblad on polarisation between the high and low educated in the Netherlands. 
Video
In 2021 I recorded a video for the Universiteit van Nederland on how to repair learning loss because of school closures.

In 2020 I was interviewed in Nieuwsuur about my research on homeschooling:

 

In 2017 I contributed to the election series of the Universiteit van Nederland and talked about early selection and inequality of educational opportunity.