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Cost Efficiency of U.S. School Districts: Stochastic Frontier Evidence from the National Education Cost Model
I estimate the technical efficiency of U.S. school districts in producing middle-grades achievement with a stochastic frontier model built on the National Education Cost Model (NECM), which measures each district’s spending relative to the predicted cost of national-average outcomes. Because outcomes are measured in standard-deviation units, efficiency is expressed in input terms: the share of… more →
More than Just Suspension: Informal Discipline in K-12 Schools
In this paper we document the prevalence and distribution of informal disciplinary consequences in K-12 public schools and examine how they contribute to disparities in school discipline. Using administrative data from North Carolina, we first describe the landscape of informal consequences across grade levels. Informal consequences are the most common disciplinary response in the early… more →
The Effects of Four-Day School Weeks in Texas
Four-day school weeks (FDSWs) have expanded rapidly in Texas in recent years. Districts cite teacher retention and recruitment as the primary motivation, though little is known about the impacts of FDSWs in this context. We study the effects of FDSW adoption on students and teachers in Texas using a staggered differences-in-differences design with a propensity score matched control group. We… more →
Fathers as Caregivers: Peer Exposure to Household Gender Roles and Girls’ Beliefs and Achievement
Gender roles are shaped within families, but whether family gender-role arrangements extend beyond households and influence other children remains unclear. This paper studies whether exposure to peers from father-dominant caregiving households affects students’ gender beliefs and educational outcomes.
Assessment Design and Course Grades: Evidence from Linked College Syllabi and Grade Records
Grade inflation is of increasing concern on college campuses, yet little is known about the course-level practices associated with higher grades. We examine one such practice: assessment design. Using syllabi from more than 400 undergraduate courses at four public universities, we identify criterion-relevant (CR) assessments—which require comparable demonstrations of knowledge or skill that… more →
Family Language Transmission Under Institutional Language Regimes Shapes Adolescent Mental Health Through Peers
In many societies, institutional languages shape participation, recognition, and belonging, while families transmit language backgrounds across generations. These inherited backgrounds may shape children’s communication and, once they enter shared classrooms, the experiences of their peers. This paper examines whether family language environments generate spillovers beyond the household… more →
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Centering Teachers in the AI Era
What happens when teachers are treated as professional decision-makers, not just end users of AI tools?
Watch the conversation about the future of the teaching profession in an AI-enabled education system, grounded in two recent EdWorkingPapers.