Search Annenberg

Documents the scale of student absenteeism and class skipping and argues that schools must actively engage students to increase attendance.

Asks how much teachers vary in performance improvement during their first five years and how well initial performance predicts later effectiveness.

Documents positive spillovers among teachers, showing that working with more effective colleagues improves teacher performance.

Provides empirical evidence on how China's shift in college admission mechanisms and exam score information affected the academic match between colleges and students.

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.

Shows how undocumented Latino youth in Nashville depend on private merit-based aid for college access, and how that inclusion undermines their sense of public belonging.

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

Examines how older sisters in Latino immigrant-origin families in Nashville frame caretaking and educational expectations for their siblings as a "descendant bargain."

Reports a randomized experiment offering an online summer mathematics program, with or without a free laptop, to low-income students in grades three through nine.

Proposes a culturally sensitive framework for incorporating underrepresented populations into large-scale experimental prevention studies.

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