Publications & Data | Journal Articles

2017

• October 25, 2017

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  Can Schools Enable Parents to Prevent Summer Learning Loss? A Text-Messaging Field Experiment to Promote Literacy Skills

  Reports a randomized trial of a summer text-messaging program helping parents support literacy at home for first through fourth graders.

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• October 25, 2017

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  The State of Unequal Educational Opportunity: The Coleman Report 50 Years Later

  Reflects on the Coleman Report 50 years on, assessing what research has learned about unequal educational opportunity since 1966.

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• September 02, 2017

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  A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Large-Scale Prevention Studies: A Case Study of a Randomized Controlled Trial in Low-Income Latino Communities

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

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• August 30, 2017

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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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• March 28, 2017

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  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 01, 2017

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  Building Teacher Teams: Evidence of Positive Spillovers from More Effective Colleagues

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

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