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Francis A. Pearman, II
Deeper Roots Before the Storm: Utilizing Machine Learning to Alert School Districts of Permanent School Closures
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceThe increasing rate of permanent school closures in U.S. public school districts presents unprecedented challenges for administrators and communities alike. This study develops an early-warning indicator model to predict mass closure events - defined as a district closing at least 10% of its… more →
Collective Racial Bias and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceThis study examines the relationship between county-level estimates of implicit racial bias and black-white test score gaps in U.S. schools. Data from over 1 million respondents from across the United States who completed an online version of the Race Implicit Association Test (IAT) were… more →
Teachers, Schools, and Pre-K Effect Persistence: An Examination of the Sustaining Environment Hypothesis
Francis A. Pearman, II, Matthew G. Springer, Mark Lipsey, Mark Lachowicz, Dale Farran, Walker Swain.Topics: Student LearningThe sustaining environments thesis hypothesizes that PreK effects are more likely to persist into later grades if children experience high-quality learning environments in the years subsequent to PreK. This study tests this hypothesis using data from a statewide PreK randomized experiment in… more →