Race, ethnicity and culture
- .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: 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: Methods
Tags: Instructional design, Instructional practicesTeacher expectations and judgments about student capabilities are predictive of student achievement, yet such judgments may be influenced by salient dimensions of student identity and invite biases. Moreover, ambitious math teaching may also invite teacher biases due to the emphasis on student-… 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: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Educator perceptions, Teacher well-being, Professional developmentParaeducators are among the largest categories of public education employees and are increasingly seen as a pool of potential teachers. However, little is known about paraeducator-to-teacher transitions. Using statewide administrative data, we show that while paraeducators may be more racially/… 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: 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: 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: 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: Teacher and Leader Development
Tags: Race, ethnicity, and education, Educator perceptionsThis paper investigates how teachers learn about race in the school context, with a particular focus on teachers’ development of racial competency. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews we find that teachers learn through three sources: from their peers, from years of experience, and from… more →
- .Categories: Families and Communities
Tags: Race, ethnicity, and education, EquityWe develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Race, ethnicity, and education, EquityLetters of recommendation from school counselors are required to apply to many selective colleges and universities. Still, relatively little is known about how this non-standardized component may affect equity in admissions. We use cutting-edge natural language processing techniques to… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Immigrant origin students, Race, ethnicity, and education, Returns to education and skillsThis study investigates the role of college major choices in labor market outcomes, with a focus on racial minorities and immigrants. Drawing upon research on school-to-work linkages, we examine two measures, linkage, the connection between college majors and specific occupations in the labor… more →
- .Categories: Teacher and Leader Development
Tags: Educator perceptions, Race, ethnicity, and education, Immigrant origin studentsWe study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Students with disabilitiesThis study examines the impact of special education on academic and behavioral outcomes for students with learning disabilities (LD) by using statewide Indiana data covering kindergarten through eighth grade. The results from student fixed effects models show that special education services… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: Race, ethnicity, and education, PrincipalsCorrespondence audits document causal evidence of racial/ethnic discrimination in many contexts. However, few studies have examined whether local political party voting context influences individuals to engage in “stakeholder-centric” discrimination on behalf of or in response to expectations of… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: Race, ethnicity, and educationEmerging literature on anti-CRT, anti-DEI efforts in education suggest that these attacks represent a rearticulation of racial ideologies which seek to contain racial progress. Although crafting anti-CRT and anti-DEI policies is primarily conducted through discourse, few studies explore the… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Race, ethnicity, and education, High schoolsThis paper investigates patterns of racial/ethnic and gender gaps in post-secondary degree attainment trajectories by the levels of students’ pre-college academic preparation. We follow four cohorts of Missouri public high school freshmen for five years beyond on-time graduation among White,… more →