Publications
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2020
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June 01, 2020A look at 20 years of Massachusetts education reform, tracing students' high school performance, college attainment, and earnings — and finding persistent gaps at every point in the pipeline.
2021
November 15, 2015A 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.2015
May 01, 2015Drawing on Massachusetts longitudinal data, this study documents large income-based gaps in high school graduation and college-going — and shows those gaps narrowing substantially over the past decade.2014
January 10, 2014A regression-discontinuity study examining how failing one or both Massachusetts exit exams affects teenagers' decisions about staying in school — extending the method to handle two tests at once.2010
March 01, 2010A regression-discontinuity study finding that barely failing the Massachusetts math exit exam reduced graduation rates for low-performing urban students, while having no such effect on their suburban peers.
