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Societal Context

A fundamental mission of education policy is to ensure that every student can receive a quality education. However, the educational opportunities and success available to students is tied into the broader context of society as a whole. CEPA researchers examine how social issues such as socioeconomic stratification, desegregation, and gender inequality affect the quality of teaching and learning for students as well as how educational institutions and policies in turn influence these broader social issues.

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Classroom Segregation Without Tracking: Chance, Legitimacy, And Myth In “Racial Paradise”

2023

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Uneven Progress: Recent Trends in Academic Performance Among U.S. School Districts

Kaylee T. Matheny

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Marissa E. Thompson

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Carrie Townley-Flores

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sean f. reardon

2022

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Dual Identification? The Effects of EL Status on SPED Placement in an Equity-Focused District

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2022

Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps

Sean F. Reardon

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Ericka Weathers

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Demetra Kalogrides

2022

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It is Surprisingly Difficult to Measure Income Segregation

Josh Leung-Gagne

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sean f. reardon

2022

The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity

Jessica Drescher

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Sean F. Reardon

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Gabrielle Torrance

2022

School Closures and the Gentrification of the Black Metropolis

Francis A. Pearman, II

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Danielle Marie Greene

2022

The Economic Achievement Gap in the US, 1960-2020: Reconciling Recent Empirical Findings

sean f. reardon

2021

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Ethnic studies increases longer-run academic engagement and attainment

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Emily K. Penner

2021

Collective Racial Bias and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Francis A. Pearman, II

2021

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Gentrified Discipline: The Impact of Gentrification on Exclusionary Punishment in Public Schools

Francis A. Pearman, II

2021

The Politics of Community College Districts: A National Overview and Implications for Racial Gerrymandering in Texas

Dominique J. Baker

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Bethany Edwards

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Spencer F. X. Lambert

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Grace Randall

2021

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The Unaccounted Students of the Pandemic: A Cross-Sector Analysis of Hawai`i’s Enrollment Decline

2021

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The Revealed Preferences for School Reopening: Evidence from Public-School Disenrollment

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Elizabeth Huffaker

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Cheryl Philips

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Eric Sagara

2021

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Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on Adolescents: Examining Impacts of the Schedule on Academic Achievement, Attendance, and Behavior in High School

2021

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Essay Content is Strongly Related to Household Income and SAT Scores: Evidence from 60,000 Undergraduate Applications

AJ Alvero

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Ben Gebre-Medhin

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anthony lising antonio

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Mitchell L. Stevens

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Benjamin W. Domingue

2021

Changing Patterns of Growth in Oral Reading Fluency During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Heather Hough

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David Lang

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Jason Yeatman

2021

Hate Crimes and Black College Student Enrollment

Dominique J. Baker

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Tolani Britton

2021

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The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School

Jaymes Pyne

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Erica Messner

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2020

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The Impacts of Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing on Homeless and Highly Mobile Students

Elise Dizon-Ross

2020

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The Effects of Educational Supports for the "Missing One-Offs" in Vocational High Schools

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Graciela I. Pérez-Núñez

2020

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Public-Sector Leadership and Venture Philanthropy: The Case of Broad Superintendents

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Susanna Loeb

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Ying Shi

2020

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Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Eric A. Hanushek

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Lavinia Kinne

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Philipp Lergetporer

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Ludger Woessmann

2020

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Can Greater Access to Education Be Inequitable? New Evidence from India's Right to Education Act

Chirantan Chatterjee

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Shreekanth Mahendiran

2020

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Using Pooled Heteroskedastic Ordered Probit Models to Improve Small-Sample Estimates of Latent Test Score Distributions

Benjamin R. Shear

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sean f. reardon

2020

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Opening the Black Box of College Counseling

2020

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Text as Data Methods for Education Research

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2019

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Gentrification, Geography, and the Declining Enrollment of Neighborhood Schools

Francis A. Pearman

2019

Are Achievement Gaps Related to Discipline Gaps? Evidence From National Data

Francis A. Pearman

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F. Chris Curran

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Benjamin W. Fisher

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Joseph H. Gardella

2019

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

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2019

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School Vouchers, Labor Markets and Vocational Education

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Michael Kremer

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Maurice Kugler

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Carlos Alberto Medina-Durango

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Christian Manuel Posso-Suárez

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Juan Esteban Saavedra

2019

Did a "Traumatic" Test Question Create Racial Bias?

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Benjamin W. Domingue

2019

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Vanished Classmates: The Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement on School Enrollment

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2019

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Connecting High School, College and the Labor Market: Evidence on the Scale-up of Career Pathways in California

2019

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Computer science skills across China, India, Russia, and the United States

Prashant Loyalka

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2019

Educational Opportunity in Early and Middle Childhood: Using Full Population Administrative Data to Study Variation by Place and Age

Sean F. Reardon

2019

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Separate Remains Unequal: Contemporary Segregation and Racial Disparities in School District Revenue

Ericka Weathers

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Victoria Sosina

2019

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Has Income Segregation Really Increased? Bias and Bias Correction in Sample-Based Segregation Estimates

Sean F. Reardon

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Kendra Bischoff

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Joseph B. Townsend

2018

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Achievement gains from reconfiguring early schooling: The case of Brazil's primary education reform

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Marcelo Martins

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2018

Out of the Education Desert: How Limited Local College Options are Associated with Inequity in Postsecondary Opportunities

Daniel Klasik

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Kristin Blagg

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Zachary Pekor

2018

What Levels of Racial Diversity can be Achieved with Socioeconomic-Based Affirmative Action? Evidence from a Simulation Model

Sean F. Reardon

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Joseph B. Townsend

2018

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Preventing gang-related problems in schools: The role of school policy

Benjamin W. Fisher

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F. Chris Curran

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Francis A. Pearman

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Joseph H. Gardella

2018

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

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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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Gender differences and the effect of facing harder competition

2017

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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Enrollment and Degree Completion at For-Profit Colleges versus Traditional Institutions

Diego Torres

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David J. Harding

2017

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

Rachel A. Valentino

2017

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The effect of neighborhood poverty on math achievement: A value-added design

Francis A. Pearman

2017

School choice, gentrification, and the variable significance of racial stratification in urban neighborhoods

Francis A. Pearman

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Walker Swain

2017

The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum

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2017

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A Continuous Measure of the Joint Distribution of Race and Income Among Neighborhoods

Sean F. Reardon

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Joseph Townsend

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2017

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Mobile Phones, Civic Engagement, and School Performance in Pakistan

Minahil Asim

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2016

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Income Segregation between Schools and School Districts

Ann Owens

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Sean F. Reardon

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Christopher Jencks

2016

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Socioeconomic Gaps in Early Childhood Experiences, 1998 to 2010

Daphna Bassok

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RaeHyuck Lee

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Sean F. Reardon

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Jane Waldfogel

2016

Recent Trends in Income, Racial, and Ethnic School Readiness Gaps at Kindergarten Entry

Sean F. Reardon

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Ximena A. Portilla

2016

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

2016

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Can Social Emotional Learning Programs Reduce School Dropout in Developing Countries?

Huan Wang

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James Chu

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Prashant Loyalka

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Tao Xin

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Tao Xin

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Yaojiang Shi

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Qinghe Qu

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Chu Yang

2016

School District Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Academic Achievement

Sean F. Reardon

2016

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The Continuing Increase in Income Segregation, 2007-2012

Sean F. Reardon

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Kendra Bischoff

2016

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