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Francis A. Pearman
Schools Never Die: Toward a Dynamic Systems Theory of School Closure
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernancePrevailing approaches to school closure treat closure as a discrete administrative act, equate schools with their facilities, and assess impacts in terms of isolated outcomes. This paper challenges these assumptions by applying Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) to school closure policy and research.… more →
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
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 →