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Matthew Lenard
Backlash? Schooling Reassignments and the Politics of School Desegregation
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceSchool desegregation efforts often spark fierce political backlash. This dissent is typically ascribed to families’ dissatisfaction with the changes in schooling assignments required to achieve desegregation aims. In this paper we use the empirical context of the Wake County Public School System… more →
Common support violations in clustered observational studies of educational interventions
Topics: MethodsTags:In education settings, treatments are often non-randomly assigned to clusters, such as schools or classrooms, while outcomes are measured for students. This research design is called the clustered observational study (COS). We examine the consequences of common support violations in the COS… more →