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Adam Shepardson
Capturing Voter Turnout at the School District Level: Validating a Geospatial Strategy
Topics: MethodsTags: Neighborhoods, School districtsSchool boards are critical sites of education policymaking, yet scholarship on these institutions is scarce because of severe data limitations. We introduce a geospatial strategy and open-source R package, called “Query, Overlay, Recover” (QOR), that generates high-quality estimates of voter… more →
Under the Weather? The Effects of Temperature on Student Test Performance
Topics: Student LearningTags:As students are exposed to extreme temperatures with ever-increasing frequency, it is important to understand how such exposure affects student learning. In this paper we draw upon detailed student achievement data, combined with high-resolution weather records, to paint a clear portrait of the… more →