Inequality
- .Categories: Teacher and Leader Development
Tags: Human capital, Race, ethnicity, and education, Teacher hiring and retentionTeacher evaluation systems and their associated incentives have produced fairly mixed results. Our analyses are motivated by theory and descriptive evidence that accountability systems are highly racialized, and that individuals are less likely to respond to incentives when they have low… more →
- .Categories: Methods
Tags: Equity, Race, ethnicity, and education, Student supportsThe persistence of underperformance in schools within large urban districts remains a significant challenge in the U.S. K-12 education system. Education policymakers have enacted legislation aiming at improving these schools through ``turnaround'' initiatives. However, students attending… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Race, ethnicity, and education, Rural educationWe study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students’ college enrollment decisions across race and socioeconomic status. Leveraging rich administrative data, we first document substantial differences in students’ local college options, with White,… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: Culturally responsive schooling, Curriculum, Poverty, Race, ethnicity, and educationThis instrumental case study explores 31 Iowan educators’ and board of education members’ perceptions of the ways the state’s book ban law, Senate File 496 influenced school information systems. Mathisen’s (2015) informational justice conceptual framework guided data analysis. The three key… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Career and technical education, College readiness, Student supportsThe labor-market payoff to workers with associate degrees in healthcare and STEM occupations is very high in Massachusetts. We examine whether this induced a growing proportion of students in MA community colleges (MACCs) to earn an associate degree (AD) in one of these fields. We do this by… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: Equity, Juvenile justice, School climate and cultureThis study provides a descriptive analysis of police intervention as a response to student behavior in New York City public schools. We find that between the 2016/17 and 2021/22 academic years, arrests and juvenile referrals decreased while non-detainment-based and psychiatric police… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Assessment, Poverty, School climate and culture, Student supportsLeveraging rich data on the universe of Texas high school graduates, we estimate how the relationship between geographic access to public two- and four-year postsecondary institutions and postsecondary outcomes varies across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Poverty, Student supportsUsing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997, we examine differences in educational experiences and in social and economic mobility for youths experiencing poverty relative to their more affluent peers. We also explore the extent to which different educational experiences are… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Equity, High schools, Human capital, Student supportsThis article provides a review of prior empirical work exploring whether and to what extent school district racial composition affects the costs associated with providing equal educational opportunity to achieve a common set of outcomes. This prior work mainly involves education cost function… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: College readinessInequality in college has both structural and psychological causes; these include the presence of self-defeating beliefs about the potential for growth and belonging. Such beliefs can be addressed through large-scale interventions in the college transition (Walton & Cohen, 2011; Walton et al… more →
- .Categories: Methods
Tags: Assessment, Covid-19 recovery, Equity, Student supportsU.S. public schools are engaged in an unprecedented effort to expand tutoring in the wake of the pandemic. Broad-based support for scaling tutoring emerged, in part, because of the large effects on student achievement found in prior meta-analyses. We conduct an expanded meta-analysis of 282… more →
- .Categories: School Choice
Tags: Equity, Charter schoolsCatholic schools have seen more than a 30% decline in enrollment over the past 20 years. While some of the decline in enrollment may have been spurred by secular trends or the Church abuse scandal, the increase in schools of choice, principally public charter schools, may explain at least some… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: Equity, Poverty, Student supportsRacial disparities in infant health conditions have persisted for decades. However, there is surprisingly limited evidence regarding the long-term consequences of these disparities. Using novel linked administrative data from Texas and the shift to Medicaid Managed Care (MMC), I show that MMC-… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Equity, Race, ethnicity, and educationHigh-achieving minority students have fewer friends than their majority counterparts. Exploring patterns of friendship formation in the Add Health data, we find strong racial homophily in friendship formations as well as strong achievement homophily within race. However, we find that achievement… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Covid-19 recovery, Race, ethnicity, and education, School climate and culture, School reformThis paper reports findings from a nationally representative survey of K-12 teachers in May 2023 that examines the potential long-term impacts of COVID-19 on public schooling. The findings suggest fundamental ways in which school operations, instructional practice and parent-teacher interaction… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Equity, School districtsTargeted school funding is a potentially valuable policy lever to increase educational equality by race, ethnicity, and income, but it remains unclear how to target funds most effectively. We use a regression discontinuity approach to compare districts that narrowly passed or failed a school… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: Neighborhoods, Race, ethnicity, and educationA digital information explosion has transformed cities’ residential and educational markets in ways that are still being uncovered. Although urban stratification scholars have increasingly scrutinized whether emerging digital platforms disrupt or reproduce longstanding segregation patterns,… more →
- .Categories: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
Tags: Student supports, Student engagementThe academic and economic benefits of school spending are well-established, but focusing on these outcomes may underestimate the full social benefits of school spending. Recent increases in U.S. child mortality are driven by injuries and raise questions about what types of social investments… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: College readiness, Higher education“Free college” programs are widespread in American higher education. They are discussed as addressing college access, affordability, inequality, and skills shortages. Many are last-dollar tuition guarantees restricted to use at single community colleges. Using student-level data spanning the… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Higher education, Efficacy“Free college” (sometimes called Promise) programs are common in U.S. higher education. Reviewing 88 studies of 25 state and local programs, I provide a nuanced picture of the mechanisms through which these programs may work and their likely effects on students, communities, and colleges. Some… more →