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  • School poverty—not racial composition—limits educational opportunity

    Stanford Graduate School of Education
  • Separate Remains Unequal: Contemporary Segregation and Racial Disparities in School District Revenue

  • School Performance, Accountability and Waiver Reforms: Evidence from Louisiana

    Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
  • Vanished Classmates: The Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement on School Enrollment

    As mentioned in The New York Times →
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We Are Leaders in These Core Research Areas

  • Poverty and Inequality
    • Journal Articles Are Achievement Gaps Related to Discipline Gaps? Evidence From National Data

      Francis A. Pearman

      ,

      F. Chris Curran

      ,

      Benjamin W. Fisher

      ,

      Joseph H. Gardella

      2019
    • Working Papers Can Repeated Aggregate Cross-Sectional Data Be Used to Measure Average Student Learning Rates? A Validation Study of Learning Rate Measures in the Stanford Education Data Archive

      Sean F. Reardon

      ,

      John P. Papay

      ,

      Tara Kilbride

      ,

      Katharine O. Strunk

      ,

      Joshua Cowen

      ,

      Lily An

      ,

      Kate Donohue

      2019 PDF icon Download 11/2019
    • Reports Test Score Growth Among Chicago Public School Students, 2009-2014

      Sean F. Reardon

      ,

      Rebecca Hinze-Pifer

      2017 PDF icon Download report
    • Journal Articles A Continuous Measure of the Joint Distribution of Race and Income Among Neighborhoods

      Sean F. Reardon

      ,

      Joseph Townsend

      ,

      Lindsay Fox

      2017 PDF icon Download 06/2015

    See More Research in Poverty and Inequality →

  • Federal and State Education Policy
    • Working Papers School Performance, Accountability and Waiver Reforms: Evidence from Louisiana

      Thomas Dee

      ,

      Elise Dizon-Ross

      2019 PDF icon Download 06/2017
    • Working Papers The Effects of School Reform Under NCLB Waivers: Evidence from Focus Schools in Kentucky

      Sade Bonilla

      ,

      Thomas Dee

      Forthcoming PDF icon Download 06/2017
    • Journal Articles The Effects of School Reform Under NCLB Waivers: Evidence from Focus Schools in Kentucky

      Sade Bonilla

      ,

      Thomas Dee

      Forthcoming PDF icon Download 06/2017
    • Working Papers School Performance, Accountability and Waiver Reforms: Evidence from Louisiana

      Thomas Dee

      ,

      Elise Dizon-Ross

      2019 PDF icon Download 06/2017

    See More Research in Federal and State Education Policy →

  • Teaching and Leadership Effectiveness
    • Working Papers The Power of Seeing Potential: Teachers' Beliefs about Overcoming Social Disadvantage and Student Achievement

      Jane Rochmes

      2018 PDF icon Download 01/2018
    • Journal Articles A Lasting Impact

      Thomas Dee

      ,

      James Wyckoff

      2017
    • Reports A counterintuitive approach to improving math education: Focus on English language arts teaching

      Susanna Loeb

      2017

    See More Research in Teaching and Leadership Effectiveness →

  • Technological Innovations in Education
    • Journal Articles School Vouchers, Labor Markets and Vocational Education

      Eric Bettinger

      ,

      Michael Kremer

      ,

      Maurice Kugler

      ,

      Carlos Alberto Medina-Durango

      ,

      Christian Manuel Posso-Suárez

      ,

      Juan Esteban Saavedra

      2019
    • Working Papers One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

      Ben York

      ,

      Susanna Loeb

      ,

      Chris Doss

      2017 PDF icon Download 06/2017
    • Working Papers Supporting Parenting through Differentiated and Personalized Text-Messaging: Testing Effects on Learning During Kindergarten

      Christopher Doss

      ,

      Erin Fahle

      ,

      Susanna Loeb

      ,

      Ben York

      2017 PDF icon Download 05/2017
    • Journal Articles The Effects of Student Coaching An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Advising

      Eric P. Bettinger

      ,

      Rachel Baker

      2014 PDF icon Download

    See More Research in Technological Innovations in Education →

We Are Leaders in These Core Research Areas

  • Poverty and InequalityFed. & State Ed. Policy
  • Federal and State Education PolicyPov. & Inequality
  • Teaching and Leadership EffectivenessTeaching & State Ed. Policy
  • Technological Innovations in EducationTech. Innovations in Ed.
  • Journal Articles Are Achievement Gaps Related to Discipline Gaps? Evidence From National Data

    Francis A. Pearman

    ,

    F. Chris Curran

    ,

    Benjamin W. Fisher

    ,

    Joseph H. Gardella

    2019
  • Working Papers Can Repeated Aggregate Cross-Sectional Data Be Used to Measure Average Student Learning Rates? A Validation Study of Learning Rate Measures in the Stanford Education Data Archive

    Sean F. Reardon

    ,

    John P. Papay

    ,

    Tara Kilbride

    ,

    Katharine O. Strunk

    ,

    Joshua Cowen

    ,

    Lily An

    ,

    Kate Donohue

    2019 PDF icon Download 11/2019
  • Reports Test Score Growth Among Chicago Public School Students, 2009-2014

    Sean F. Reardon

    ,

    Rebecca Hinze-Pifer

    2017 PDF icon Download report
  • Journal Articles A Continuous Measure of the Joint Distribution of Race and Income Among Neighborhoods

    Sean F. Reardon

    ,

    Joseph Townsend

    ,

    Lindsay Fox

    2017 PDF icon Download 06/2015

See More Research in Poverty and Inequality →

  • Working Papers School Performance, Accountability and Waiver Reforms: Evidence from Louisiana

    Thomas Dee

    ,

    Elise Dizon-Ross

    2019 PDF icon Download 06/2017
  • Working Papers The Effects of School Reform Under NCLB Waivers: Evidence from Focus Schools in Kentucky

    Sade Bonilla

    ,

    Thomas Dee

    Forthcoming PDF icon Download 06/2017
  • Journal Articles The Effects of School Reform Under NCLB Waivers: Evidence from Focus Schools in Kentucky

    Sade Bonilla

    ,

    Thomas Dee

    Forthcoming PDF icon Download 06/2017
  • Working Papers School Performance, Accountability and Waiver Reforms: Evidence from Louisiana

    Thomas Dee

    ,

    Elise Dizon-Ross

    2019 PDF icon Download 06/2017

See More Research in Federal and State Education Policy →

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

    Jane Rochmes

    2018 PDF icon Download 01/2018
  • Journal Articles A Lasting Impact

    Thomas Dee

    ,

    James Wyckoff

    2017
  • Reports A counterintuitive approach to improving math education: Focus on English language arts teaching

    Susanna Loeb

    2017

See More Research in Teaching and Leadership Effectiveness →

  • Journal Articles School Vouchers, Labor Markets and Vocational Education

    Eric Bettinger

    ,

    Michael Kremer

    ,

    Maurice Kugler

    ,

    Carlos Alberto Medina-Durango

    ,

    Christian Manuel Posso-Suárez

    ,

    Juan Esteban Saavedra

    2019
  • Working Papers One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

    Ben York

    ,

    Susanna Loeb

    ,

    Chris Doss

    2017 PDF icon Download 06/2017
  • Working Papers Supporting Parenting through Differentiated and Personalized Text-Messaging: Testing Effects on Learning During Kindergarten

    Christopher Doss

    ,

    Erin Fahle

    ,

    Susanna Loeb

    ,

    Ben York

    2017 PDF icon Download 05/2017
  • Journal Articles The Effects of Student Coaching An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Advising

    Eric P. Bettinger

    ,

    Rachel Baker

    2014 PDF icon Download

See More Research in Technological Innovations in Education →

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CEPA in the News

  • As mentioned in The Hechinger Report

    The first rigorous evaluation of one of the larger programs came out in October 2019 and found some promising results. Stanford University researchers studied a special class expressly for black teenage boys in Oakland, California, called the Manhood Development Program. They found that black boys were less likely to drop out of high school if the class was offered at their school compared to black boys at schools where it wasn’t offered. In a high school with 60 black boys in ninth grade, only three students dropped out, on average, instead of five students in schools that didn’t offer the course.

    PUBLICATION CITED: My Brother’s Keeper? The Impact of Targeted Educational Supports
  • As mentioned in Stanford Report

    A new study led by Thomas S. Dee, a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), provides the first evidence that access to the program significantly reduced the number of black males who dropped out of high school. The study found smaller reductions in the number of black females who dropped out as well, suggesting a possible spillover effect.

    “Many historically marginalized students experience schools as highly alienating spaces,” said Dee. “The targeted design of this program, and the evidence of its impact, challenges us to radically reconsider how we think about promoting equity in education.”

    PUBLICATION CITED: My Brother’s Keeper? The Impact of Targeted Educational Supports
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