Program and policy effects
- .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: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Career and technical education, College readiness, Student supportsRecent policies have expanded the availability of career-focused advising in high schools, including for students pursuing career and technical education (CTE) courses of study who might not have been adequately served by traditional college-focused advising. However, there is limited research… more →
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Tags: Students with disabilitiesCurrently 15 percent of U.S. students receive special education services, a widespread intensive intervention with variable effects on students. Spurred by changes in federal policy, many states and districts have begun adopting the Response to Intervention (RTI) approach to identifying students… more →
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Tags: Students with disabilities, EquityThis study investigates the impact of states' adoption of Response to Interventions (RTI) on the identification and placement of students in special education. RTI, adopted by the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 2004, is designed to improve the… more →
- .Categories: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
Tags: Student discipline, Elementary schoolsThis research analyzes the implementation of a school suspension ban in Maryland to investigate whether a top-down state-initiated ban on suspensions in early primary grades can influence school behavior regarding school discipline. Beginning in the fall of 2017, the State of Maryland banned the… 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: Student Learning
Tags: Instructional practices, Reading and literacy education, Elementary schoolsScaling up evidence-based educational interventions to improve student outcomes presents challenges, particularly in adapting to new contexts while maintaining fidelity. Structured teacher adaptations that integrate the strengths of experimental science (high fidelity) and improvement science (… more →
- .Categories: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
Tags: Child development, ParentingThis paper presents causal evidence on the impact of parenting practices on early child development. We exploit exogenous changes in nurturing care induced by a parent training intervention to estimate the impact of nurturing parenting practices on child outcomes. We find a large and significant… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, School districts, NeighborhoodsWe use frame analysis to analyze the first iteration of the Texas District of Innovation policy, which allows districts to take exemption from state education requirements mandating the hiring of a state certified teacher. We analyzed 451 district policies and find the plans use very similar,… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Poverty, Higher education, Race, ethnicity, and educationThis quasi-experimental study examined the effectiveness of a one-time emergency financial relief program among Pell Grant eligible undergraduate students in Spring 2015 pursuing their first bachelor’s degree across academic and financial outcomes. The academic outcomes included retention to the… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Leadership, Human capitalDespite the popularity of teacher leadership since the 1980s, little research examines its effects on student achievement. In this paper, I assess the influence of the New York City Department of Education’s Teacher Career Pathways program, a teacher leadership initiative, on student achievement… 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 →
- .Categories: Families and Communities
Tags: Early childhood education, Assessment, Human capitalAs women increasingly entered the labor force throughout the late 20th century, the challenges of balancing work and family came to the forefront. We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children—through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Ability grouping, High schools, EquityThe pivotal role of Algebra in the educational trajectories of U.S. students continues to motivate controversial, high-profile policies focused on when students access the course, their classroom peers, and how the course is taught. This random-assignment partnership study examines an innovative… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Higher educationPromise programs are discussed as a policy movement that began with the 2005 launch of the Kalamazoo Promise. Since then, programs bearing the Promise label or sharing similar features have spread across the higher educational landscape, appearing in most states and across postsecondary sectors… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Tutoring, Student supportsDrawing on qualitative data collected in a sample of colleges as part of a larger study on the implementation and impact of Assembly Bill 705 in California, this paper explores the rollout of corequisite reforms, focusing on the use of embedded tutors in introductory math and English courses as… more →
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Project Lead the Way: Impacts of a High School Applied STEM Program on Early Post-Secondary Outcomes
Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Career and technical education, High schools, Science educationProject Lead the Way (PLTW) is an applied STEM program first introduced nearly three decades ago to enhance the STEM content of Career Technical Education (CTE). Currently, more than 12,000 US high schools offer the program. Using data from three cohorts of public high school freshmen in… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: School reform, International and comparativeResearch on school improvement has accumulated an extensive list of factors that facilitate turnarounds at underperforming schools. Given that contextual or resource constraints may limit the possibilities of putting all of these factors in place, an important question is what is necessary and… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Tutoring, Mathematics educationBudget constraints and limited supplies of local tutors have caused many K-12 school districts to pivot from individual tutoring in-person toward small-group tutoring online to expand access to personalized instruction. We conduct a field experiment to explore the effect of increasing student-… more →
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Do later school start times improve adolescents’ sleep and substance use? A quasi-experimental study
Categories: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
Tags: Student engagementA later school start time policy has been recommended as a solution to adolescents’ sleep deprivation. We estimated the impacts of later school start times on adolescents’ sleep and substance use by leveraging a quasi-experiment in which school start time was delayed in some regions in South… more →