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School Effectiveness

Effective schools that promote student academic success and social development are a major contributor to the immediate and lifetime success of students. CEPA researchers examine what school level factors impact student achievement, the measures of school effectiveness, and the efficacy of programs and policies intended to make schools more effective.

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Long-Term Trends in Private School Enrollments by Family Income

Richard J. Murnane

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Sean F. Reardon

Forthcoming

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How much do test scores vary among school districts? New estimates using population data, 2009-2015

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Sean F. Reardon

Forthcoming

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Will public pre-K really close achievement gaps? Gaps in prekindergarten quality between students and across states

Rachel A. Valentino

Forthcoming

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Educational opportunity in early and middle childhood: Variation by place and age

Sean F. Reardon

2018

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The Power of Seeing Potential: Teachers' Beliefs about Overcoming Social Disadvantage and Student Achievement

2018

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Test Score Growth Among Chicago Public School Students, 2009-2014

Sean F. Reardon

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Rebecca Hinze-Pifer

2017

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Unconscious Bias in the Classroom: Evidence and Opportunities

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Seth Gershenson

2017

Assessing Principals' Assessments: Subjective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness in Low- and High-Stakes Environments

Jason A. Grissom

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2017

School Performance, Accountability and Waiver Reforms: Evidence from Louisiana

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Elise Dizon-Ross

2017

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How Much Regulation? A Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Student Literacy Skills in Prekindergarten vs. Transitional Kindergarten

Christopher Doss

2017

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Court-Ordered Finance Reforms in the Adequacy Era: Heterogeneous Causal Effects and Sensitivity

Chris Candelaria

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2017

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Using Surveys of Students' Social-Emotional Skills and School Climate for Accountability and Continuous Improvement

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Demetra Kalogrides

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2017

Mobile Phones, Civic Engagement, and School Performance in Pakistan

Minahil Asim

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2016

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Revisiting the Relationship between International Assessment Outcomes and Educational Production: Evidence from a Longitudinal PISA-TIMSS Sample

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Tatiana Khavenson

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Prashant Loyalka

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William H. Schmidt

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Andrey Zakharov

2016

School-Based Healthcare and Academic Performance: Implications of Physical Health Services for Educational Outcomes and Inequality

2016

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Do Poor, Rural Students Make Inefficient College & Major Choices? Evidence from China

Prashant Loyalka

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Y. Qu

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Binzhen Wu

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X.Y. Ye

2016

School District Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Academic Achievement

Sean F. Reardon

2016

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The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations

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Will Dobbie

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Brian A. Jacob

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Jonah Rockoff

2016

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State of the Union - The Poverty and Inequality Report 2016: Education

Anna K. Chmielewski

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Sean F. Reardon

2016

School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps

Sean F. Reardon

2015

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Principal Time Management Skills: Explaining Patterns in Principals' Time Use, Job Stress, and Perceived Effectiveness

Jason Grissom

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Hajime Mitani

2015

Giving Kids a Head Start: The Impact of Early Commitment of Financial Aid on Poor Seventh Grade Students in Rural China

Hongmei Yi

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Yingquan Song

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Chengfang Liu

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Xiaoting Huang

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Linxiu Zhang

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Yunli Bai

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Yaojiang Shi

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Chu Yang

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Huan Wang

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Prashant Loyalka

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James Chu

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Scott Rozelle

2015

The Impacts of Building Elite High Schools for Students from Disadvantaged Areas

Prashant Loyalka

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Jianguo Wei

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Yingquan Song

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Weiping Zhong

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Chu Yang

2015

Penalty or Reward? How Prior Grades and Gender Affect the Accuracy of Teacher Grading

James Chu

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Prashant Loyalka

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Francisco Ramirez

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Guirong Li

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Huan Wang

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Yaojiang Shi

2016

Factors Affecting the Quality of Engineering Education in the Four Largest Emerging Economies

Prashant Loyalka

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Martin Carnoy

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Isak Froumin

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Raffiq Dossani

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J. B. Tilak

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Po Yang

2014

Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching of Public School Teachers to Jobs: Disentangling the Preferences of Teachers and Employers

Donald Boyd

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Hamilton Lankford

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James Wyckoff

2013

Effective Instructional Time Use for School Leaders: Longitudinal Evidence from Observations of Principals

Jason Grissom

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Benjamin Master

2013

Setting Aside the Course Reader: The Legal, Economic, and Pedagogical Reasons

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John Willinsky

2013

University Expansion in the BRIC Countries and the Global Information Economy

Martin Carnoy

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Prashant Loyalka

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Isak Froumin

2013

Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School

Eric A. Hanushek

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Paul E. Peterson

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Ludger Woessmann

2013

What do we know about the use of value-added measures for principal evaluation?

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2013

University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy: Triumph of the BRICs?

Martin Carnoy

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Prashant Loyalka

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Maria Dobryakova

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Rafiq Dossani

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Isak Froumin

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Katherine Kuhns

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Jandhyala Tilak

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Rong Wang

2013

The challenges of measuring school quality: Implications for educational equity

Helen Ladd

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2013

What is effective instructional leadership? Longitudinal evidence from observations of principals

Jason Grissom

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Benjamin Master

2012

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Tara Beteille

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Demetra Kalogrides

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2012

School turnarounds: Evidence from the 2009 stimulus

2012

The effects of attending selective college tiers in China

Prashant Loyalka

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Yingquan Song

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Jianguo Wei

2012

Triangulating principal effectiveness: How perspectives of parents, teachers, and assistant principals identify the central importance of managerial skills

Jason Grissom

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2011

Paying to Learn: The Effect of Financial Incentives on Elementary School Test Scores

Eric P. Bettinger

2011

School accountability

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David Figlio

2011

Principal’s time use and school effectiveness

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Eileen Horng

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2010

The effect of Catholic schooling on math and reading development in kindergarten through fifth grade

Sean F. Reardon

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Jacob E. Cheadle

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Joseph P. Robinson

2009

The effects of school size on parental involvement and social capital: Evidence from the ELS: 2002

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Wei Ha

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Brian A. Jacob

2007

Successful California Schools in the Context of Educational Adequacy

María Pérez

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Tom Parrish

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Priyanka Anand

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Cecilia Speroni

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Phil Esra

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Miguel Socias

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Paul Gubbins

2007

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Research summary |

How much is too much? The effects of duration and intensity of child care experiences on children’s social and cognitive development

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Margaret Bridges

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Daphna Bassok

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Bruce Fuller

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Russ Rumberger

2007

Policies to ensure that no child starts from behind

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Kenji Hakuta

2006

The effects of Catholic schooling on civic participation

2005

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