Publications & Data

2017

• September 01, 2017

  Reports

  Engaging Parents Through Better Communication Systems

  Draws on classroom experience to argue for better school-to-parent communication systems that engage families in supporting student learning.

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• August 30, 2017

  Journal Articles

  Relationships between observations of elementary mathematics instruction and student achievement: Exploring variability across districts

  Explores how the relationship between observed quality of elementary mathematics instruction and student achievement differs across school districts.

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• August 24, 2017

  Journal Articles

  The Sensitivity of Teacher Performance Ratings to the Design of Teacher Evaluation Systems

  Examines how teacher performance ratings change with evaluation system design choices such as measure weights and rating thresholds.

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• August 23, 2017

  Journal Articles

  The Simultaneous Effects of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Child Health on Children’s Cognitive Development

  Examines how socioeconomic disadvantage and child health work together over the life course to shape children's development and reproduce inequality.

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• July 17, 2017

  Journal Articles

  Revisiting The Widget Effect: Teacher Evaluation Reforms and the Distribution of Teacher Effectiveness

  Revisits The Widget Effect with teacher ratings from 24 reform states, finding fewer than 1% rated unsatisfactory but wide variation in rating distributions.

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• July 04, 2017

  Journal Articles

  Strategic Staffing? How Performance Pressures Affect the Distribution of Teachers within Schools and Resulting Student Achievement

  Finds that schools under performance pressure assign teachers with stronger performance measures to tested classrooms the following year.

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• July 01, 2017

  Working Papers

  Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility

  Characterizes intergenerational income mobility at every U.S. college using data on over 30 million students, documenting stark differences in access by parent income.

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• July 01, 2017

  Journal Articles

  Plastic and Immobile: Unequal Intergenerational Transmission by Genotype within Sibling Pairs

  Uses Add Health sibling data to test whether genotype moderates the transmission of economic standing from parents to children.

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• June 22, 2017

  Journal Articles

  Marriage Delayed and Equalized: Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Marital Patterns by Race

  Uses regression discontinuity analyses of 1910 and 1930 census data to estimate how early compulsory schooling laws affected marriage patterns by gender and race.

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• June 20, 2017

  Journal Articles

  Gauging Goodness of Fit: Teachers’ Assessments of their Instructional Teams in High-Poverty Schools

  Analyzes how teachers in six high-poverty schools judged whether instructional teams helped them teach better and improved their schools.

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• June 01, 2017

  Journal Articles

  The Effects of Class Size in Online College Courses: Experimental Evidence

  Finds through a quasi-random field experiment that small changes in online college class size do not affect student grades or persistence.

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• April 28, 2017

  Journal Articles

  Developing Workplaces Where Teachers Stay, Improve, and Succeed

  Draws on research in high-poverty schools to describe the working conditions that help teachers stay, improve, and succeed.

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• April 06, 2017

  Reports

  A counterintuitive approach to improving math education: Focus on English language arts teaching

  Recent education reform efforts commonly aim at improving teacher effectiveness. One study of three large districts finds that they spent approximately $18,000 for professional development for each teacher each year.

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• March 28, 2017

  Journal Articles

  Resource- and Approach-Driven Multi-Dimensional Change: Three-Year Effects of School Improvement Grants

  Uses a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the three-year effects of School Improvement Grants on multiple dimensions in one urban district.

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• March 10, 2017

  Reports

  Using Surveys of Students' Social-Emotional Skills and School Climate for Accountability and Continuous Improvement

  Shows, using data from California's CORE districts, that surveys of social-emotional learning and school climate are reliable, valid, and informative measures of school performance.

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