Ph.D. Student Profiles

Vitaly Radsky is a current Ph.D. student in the PLS program at UNC-Chapel Hill studying school (de)segregation, school choice, and the history of educational reform policy. He works as a school planner at Durham Public Schools in Durham, North Carolina where he supports Durham’s 2024 student assignment plan and other enrollment planning projects. His dissertation explores the ideas and implementation of school desegregation and other educational reform policies. Previously, he served as a college adviser at a national college access non-profit and worked in non-profit management in Azerbaijan.

Publications

• Domina, T., Clark, L., Radsky, V., & Bhaskar, R. (2024). There is such a thing as a free lunch: school meals, stigma, and student discipline. American Educational Research Journal, 61(2), 287-327.
• Spiegel, M., Clark, L. R., Domina, T., Radsky, V., Yoo, P. Y., & Penner, A. (2025). Measuring school economic disadvantage. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 47(2), 413-435.
• Carlson, D., Domina, T., Carter III, J., Perera, R. M., Radsky, V., & McEachin, A. (2024). Structuring Choice Policy, School Segregation and the Two-Staged School Choice Process. American Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312251355992.

Presentations

• Radsky, V, (2023). The End of School Desegregation? School Improvement, Integration, and Equal Opportunity in Durham, NC. Presentation at the Vienna-Madison-Chapel Hill-Aalborg. Doctoral Colloquium for History.