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  • 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 →
  • 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

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We Are Leaders in These Core Research Areas

  • Poverty and Inequality
    • Journal Articles The moderating effect of neighborhood poverty on preschool effectiveness: Evidence from the Tennessee Voluntary Prekindergarten Experiment

      Francis A. Pearman

      2019
    • Working Papers Is School Funding Unequal in Latin America? A Cross-country Analysis

      Eleonora Bertoni

      ,

      Gregory Elacqua

      ,

      Luana Marotta

      ,

      Matías Martinez

      ,

      Humberto Santos

      ,

      Sammara Soares

      PDF icon Download 12/2020
    • Working Papers The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School

      Jaymes Pyne

      ,

      Erica Messner

      ,

      Thomas S. Dee

      2020 PDF icon Download 09/2020
    • Working Papers The Impacts of Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing on Homeless and Highly Mobile Students

      Elise Dizon-Ross

      2020 PDF icon Download 07/2020

    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

      2020 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

      2020 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
    • Journal Articles Stress in Boom Times: Understanding Teachers’ Economic Anxiety in a High Cost Urban District

      Elise Dizon-Ross

      ,

      Susanna Loeb

      ,

      Emily Penner

      ,

      Jane Rochmes

      2019 PDF icon Download 05/2018
    • 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

    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
    • Journal Articles Online education platforms scale college STEM instruction with equivalent learning outcomes at lower cost

      Igor Chirikov

      ,

      Tatiana Semenova

      ,

      Natalia Maloshonok

      ,

      Eric Bettinger

      ,

      René F. Kizilcec

      2020
    • 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

    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 The moderating effect of neighborhood poverty on preschool effectiveness: Evidence from the Tennessee Voluntary Prekindergarten Experiment

    Francis A. Pearman

    2019
  • Working Papers Is School Funding Unequal in Latin America? A Cross-country Analysis

    Eleonora Bertoni

    ,

    Gregory Elacqua

    ,

    Luana Marotta

    ,

    Matías Martinez

    ,

    Humberto Santos

    ,

    Sammara Soares

    PDF icon Download 12/2020
  • Working Papers The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School

    Jaymes Pyne

    ,

    Erica Messner

    ,

    Thomas S. Dee

    2020 PDF icon Download 09/2020
  • Working Papers The Impacts of Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing on Homeless and Highly Mobile Students

    Elise Dizon-Ross

    2020 PDF icon Download 07/2020

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

    2020 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

    2020 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 →

  • Journal Articles Stress in Boom Times: Understanding Teachers’ Economic Anxiety in a High Cost Urban District

    Elise Dizon-Ross

    ,

    Susanna Loeb

    ,

    Emily Penner

    ,

    Jane Rochmes

    2019 PDF icon Download 05/2018
  • 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

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
  • Journal Articles Online education platforms scale college STEM instruction with equivalent learning outcomes at lower cost

    Igor Chirikov

    ,

    Tatiana Semenova

    ,

    Natalia Maloshonok

    ,

    Eric Bettinger

    ,

    René F. Kizilcec

    2020
  • 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

See More Research in Technological Innovations in Education →

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  • As mentioned in Chalkbeat

    This debate kicked off nearly a decade ago with a study by Sean Reardon, a prominent Stanford education researcher. Using data from a number of different tests, he compared students born in the early 2000s to those born decades earlier. His conclusion was bleak: the difference between students from the highest- and lowest-income families had jumped 30 to 40 percent.

    PUBLICATION CITED: The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations
  • As mentioned in Mother Jones

    There’s evidence that GreatSchools’ ratings are exacerbating racial segregation, not just within school systems but in the communities around them. “What makes GreatSchools popular is partly that they’re linked to real estate sites, which is partly what makes them dangerous,” says Sean Reardon, an education professor at Stanford University who studies poverty and inequality. “They start to overtly link people’s residential choices to what seems to be a measure of school quality. While that makes lots of sense if it’s a high-quality metric of school quality, if it’s more of a measure of socio­economic composition of schools, then it runs the risk of creating incentives for more socioeconomic segregation.”

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