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2015

December 12, 2015

Journal Articles

Empowerment and Civic Surrogacy: Community Workers' Perceptions of Their Own and Their Latino/a Students' Civic Potential

Examines how three Nashville educational support professionals' conceptions of empowerment shape civic expectations for their Latino/a students and themselves.

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December 03, 2015

Journal Articles

The State of Title I: Developing the Capability to Support Instructional Improvement

Examines Title I's legacy as a vehicle for successive reform agendas and the challenge of developing the capability to support instruction.

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December 01, 2015

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Exploring Mechanisms of Effective Teacher Coaching: A Tale of Two Cohorts From a Randomized Experiment

Estimates the impact of MATCH Teacher Coaching across two cohorts, finding large effects in the first but none in the second as the coaching model changed.

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December 01, 2015

Journal Articles

The Micropolitics of Educational Inequality: The Case of Teacher' Student Assignments

Argues that micropolitics shape how teachers and students are assigned to classrooms, a key source of inequity in access to high-quality teachers.

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November 01, 2015

Journal Articles

The relationship between lifetime health trajectories and socioeconomic attainment in middle age

Examines how lifetime health trajectories and socioeconomic circumstances jointly shape opportunities for attainment and mobility.

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October 30, 2015

Journal Articles

How to Make Additional Time Matter: Integrating Individualized Tutorials into an Extended Day

Uses two quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effects of integrating two hours of individualized tutorials into an extended day at MATCH Charter Public High School.

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October 19, 2015

Journal Articles

Understanding Chinese immigrant and European American mothers' expressions of warmth

Examines cultural differences in how Chinese immigrant and European American mothers express warmth toward their children.

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October 10, 2015

Journal Articles

Productivity returns to experience in the teacher labor market: Methodological challenges and new evidence on long-term career improvement

Presents new evidence and a new modeling approach for estimating how teacher productivity grows with experience, showing how identifying assumptions can bias results.

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October 08, 2015

Journal Articles

Do First Impressions Matter? Predicting Early Career Teacher Effectiveness

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

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October 05, 2015

Journal Articles

Educating Amidst Uncertainty: The Organizational Supports Teachers Need to Serve Students in High-poverty, Urban Schools

Draws on interviews with 95 teachers and administrators to examine how six high-poverty urban schools organize to help teachers cope with uncertainty.

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October 02, 2015

Working Papers

Teacher layoffs, teacher quality and student achievement: Evidence from a discretionary layoff policy

Examines a discretionary teacher layoff policy in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and estimates how layoffs affected student achievement by teacher seniority and effectiveness.

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October 01, 2015

Working Papers

Identification and Inference With Many Invalid Instruments

Develops methods for estimation and inference when instruments are correlated with an endogenous regressor but also directly affect the outcome.

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August 12, 2015

Working Papers

The underutilized potential of teacher-to-parent communication: Evidence from a field experiment

Reports an experiment in which weekly one-sentence teacher-to-parent messages cut course failure in a high school credit recovery program by 41%.

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July 14, 2015

Journal Articles

Play or learn: European-American and Chinese kindergartners' perceptions about the conflict

Compares how European-American and Chinese kindergartners perceive and resolve the conflict between learning and play.

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November 15, 2015

Journal Articles

The Impact of Test Score Labels on Human-Capital Investment Decisions

A regression-discontinuity study finding that the performance label attached to a state test score — not just the score itself — has lasting effects on whether urban, low-income students go to college.

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