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Salting the Oats: Increasing the Likelihood of Organizational Change for Equity
(2018-04-30)The following capstone outlines the work I completed during a 10-month residency at Education First, a virtual for-profit education consulting firm with a mission to help agencies of education ensure that all students—particularly ... -
Scaffolding Fidelity and Adaptation in Educational Program Implementation: Experimental Evidence From a Literacy Intervention
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2017-07-13)In a common approach for scaling up effective educational practice, schools adopt evidence based programs to be implemented with fidelity. An alternative approach assumes that programs should be adapted to local contexts. ... -
Scaffolding Voluntary Summer Reading for Children in Grades 3 to 5: An Experimental Study
(Informa UK Limited, 2008)The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with teacher and parent scaffolding were investigated in an experimental study. A total of 24 teachers and 400 children in Grades 3, 4, and 5 were randomly assigned ... -
Scalable Programs and Policies for Promoting Student Success
(2018-05-08)Goldin and Katz (2008) identified investment in human capital as a critical component of the United States’ economic flourishing in the twentieth century. Large-scale investments in secondary and postsecondary education ... -
Scaling Instructional Improvement: Designing a Strategy to Develop the Leaders of Leaders
(2016-05-02)With close to 50 million children attending 98,000 public schools in the United States, the public school classroom continues to be an essential locus of change that, if improved at scale, could increase educational and ... -
Scaling Love in the Education Ecosystem: An Exploration of Liberated and Loving Leadership
(2023-12-08)“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time The American education system is struggling to recruit and retain diverse leaders and ... -
School Accountability, Postsecondary Attainment and Earnings
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013)We study the impact of accountability pressure in Texas public high schools in the 1990s on postsecondary attainment and earnings, using administrative data from the Texas Schools Project (TSP). We find that high schools ... -
School Choice and Educational Opportunities: The Upper-Secondary Student-Assignment Process in Mexico City
(2015-05-15)Many education systems around the world use a centralized admission process to assign students to schools. By definition, some applicants to oversubscribed schools are not offered admission to their most-preferred school. ... -
School Choice, School Quality, and Postsecondary Attainment
(American Economic Association, 2014)We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte- Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college attainment among lottery winners ... -
School Climate, Teacher-Child Closeness, and Low-Income Children’s Academic Skills in Kindergarten
(2015)In this study we used data on a sample of children in the Chicago Public Schools in areas of concentrated poverty-related disadvantage to examine associations between school climate and low-income children’s language/literacy ... -
School Closure and Abnormal Justice
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School District Takeovers, State-District Relationships, and the Evolving Role of the State Education Agency in the United States
(2022-05-13)School district takeovers—when a state education agency (SEA) assumes control of a low-performing district—are the most aggressive accountability intervention available to SEAs. Much of the scholarship on takeovers has ... -
School Leadership Pipelines for Low Performing Schools: Influencing District Change Without Permission
(2018-05-01)When a school has been persistently low performing, it is unlikely that the school will improve without expert leadership. Principals serve as a key lever in the quest to improve low performing schools, but many districts ... -
School Segregation, Educational Attainment, and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)We study the impact of the end of race-based busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools (“CMS”) on academic achievement, educational attainment, and young adult crime. In 2001, CMS was prohibited from using race in assigning ... -
School-Based Data Teams Ask the Darnedest Questions About Statistics: Three Essays in the Epistemology of Statistical Consulting and Teaching
(2014-10-22)The essays in this thesis attempt to answer the most difficult questions that I have faced as a teacher and consultant for school-based data teams. When we report statistics to our fellow educators, what do we say and what ... -
Sensitivity of School-Performance Ratings to Scaling Decisions
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-11-06)Policymakers usually leave decisions about scaling the scores used for accountability to their appointed technical advisory committees and the testing contractors. However, scaling decisions can have an appreciable impact ... -
Separating the Signal From the Noise: An Examination of Student and Teacher Scores Based on Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) in One State
(2015-05-15)Despite the prevalence of student learning objectives (SLOs) in teacher evaluation systems throughout the United States, research on the validity of student and teacher SLO scores used for high-stakes decisions is lacking. ...