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A report tracing how Massachusetts' SUCCESS initiative — a first-of-its-kind state investment in wraparound support across all 15 community colleges — moved from budget line to practice on campuses.

Examines the post-secondary effects of an alternative graduation pathway for students who fail high school exit exams, a group at heightened risk of dropping out.

Decisions about who is in charge of school systems often make the news. High-profile cases such as the recent takeover of the Houston Independent School District by the State of Texas – where one of the first steps by state leaders was to replace the superintendent – highlight the central importance of district leadership as well as the public perception of superintendents as critical contributors to the quality of a school system.

Jayanti Owens

Tests which mechanisms drive the success of text-message parenting programs, comparing general information, actionable advice, and encouragement for preschoolers' literacy development.

Connecting people, evidence, and education practice

Reviews recent rigorous studies of STEM instructional improvement programs to identify what makes teacher professional development and curriculum reforms work.

Would public meetings incite more civic engagement if they were structured in ways that are simply more engaging? I addressed this question by conducting an original survey with an oversample of racial and ethnic minorities and individuals from low-income households.

Links original panel data on U.S. teacher strikes to congressional campaign ads to examine whether strikes elevate education as a political priority.

Monica Lee

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Leiah Groom-Thomas

Demetra Kalogrides

Documents lasting student achievement gains caused by a short-lived change in teacher evaluation incentives, using a quasi-experimental retesting discontinuity.

Offers a framework of educational goods and values to help decision makers and researchers articulate goals and trade-offs in education.

Uses teacher application data to examine how teacher quality shapes retention and hiring decisions in large urban districts with school-based hiring.

Describes an economic approach to understanding education policy implementation, connecting economic methods to the study of policy processes.

This mixed‐methods study of urban low‐income, English‐proficient Chinese American, second‐generation 15‐year‐olds (conducted in 2004; N = 32) examined the relation among the virtue model of learning communicated by parents and adolescents’ learning beliefs, self‐regulated learning (SRL) behaviors, and academic achievement.

Summarizes the book Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making and introduces a symposium of responses from philosophers of education.

Documents the prevalence and unequal distribution of substitute teacher coverage across schools in a large urban district, with less advantaged schools covered least.