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2015

June 01, 2015

Journal Articles

Educational Expansion and Occupational Change: US Compulsory Schooling Laws and the Occupational Structure 1850–1930

During the US Industrial Revolution, educational expansion may have created skilled jobs through innovation and skill upgrading or reduced skilled jobs by mechanizing production. Such arguments contradict classic sociological work that treats education as a sorting mechanism, allocating individuals to fixed occupations.

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May 01, 2015

Journal Articles

Income-Based Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Learning From State Longitudinal Data Systems

Drawing on Massachusetts longitudinal data, this study documents large income-based gaps in high school graduation and college-going — and shows those gaps narrowing substantially over the past decade.

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April 29, 2015

Journal Articles

Cumulative Inequality in Child Health and Academic Achievement

Tests cumulative inequality theory by examining how child health and family resources together shape academic achievement over development.

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April 01, 2015

Working Papers

Using student test scores to measure principal performance

Develops and compares multiple models for using longitudinal student achievement data to measure principal effectiveness.

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February 20, 2015

Journal Articles

Managing School Integration and White Flight: The Debate over Chicago’s Future in the 1960s

Traces how Chicago's 1960s school integration debate shifted from demands for equality for Black students to concerns about keeping white families in the city.

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February 20, 2015

Journal Articles

Early childhood WIC participation, cognitive development and academic achievement

Examines the effects of early childhood WIC participation on children's cognitive development and academic outcomes.

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January 01, 2015

Journal Articles

Distributive decisions in education: Goals, trade-offs, and feasibility constraints

Lays out a framework for distributive decisions in education, balancing competing goals under real-world feasibility constraints.

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Publications & Data

2015

Educational Expansion and Occupational Change: US Compulsory Schooling Laws and the Occupational Structure 1850–1930

Income-Based Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Learning From State Longitudinal Data Systems

Cumulative Inequality in Child Health and Academic Achievement

Using student test scores to measure principal performance

Managing School Integration and White Flight: The Debate over Chicago’s Future in the 1960s

Early childhood WIC participation, cognitive development and academic achievement

Distributive decisions in education: Goals, trade-offs, and feasibility constraints

2014

Hidden Gains: Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Attendance and Attainment by Social Background

The Emergence of Social Capital in Low-Income Latino Elementary Schools

Race to Sustain: The Policy Implications of Racial Differences in Climate Change Public Opinion Attitudes

Is a Good Teacher a Good Teacher for All? Comparing Value-Added of Teachers with Their English Learners and Non-English Learners

Who Enters Teaching? Encouraging Evidence that the Status of Teaching is Improving

"My Mom Tells Me I Should Follow the Rules, That's Why They Have Those Rules": Perceptions of Parental Advice Giving among Mexican-Heritage Adolescents

Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

Does state preschool crowd-out private provision? The impact of universal preschool on the childcare sector in Oklahoma and Georgia

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