Methods for measuring school effectiveness

J Angrist, P Hull, C Walters - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2023 - Elsevier
Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

Racialized reshuffling: urban change and the persistence of segregation in the twenty-first century

J Hwang, TW McDaniel - Annual Review of Sociology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The literature on the persistence of racial residential segregation in the United States has
made significant progress by moving beyond traditional explanations—socioeconomic …

Avoiding us versus them: How schools' dependence on privileged “helicopter” parents influences enforcement of rules

JMC Calarco - American Sociological Review, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
As privilege-dependent organizations, US public schools have an interest in catering to
higher-SES White families. But, what happens when privileged families' interests conflict …

Launching with a parachute: The gig economy and new business formation

JM Barrios, YV Hochberg, H Yi - Journal of Financial Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We utilize the staggered arrival of Uber and Lyft—large sources of on-demand, platform-
enabled gig opportunities—in US cities to examine the effect of the arrival of flexible gig …

Making the data visible: A systematic review of systems-level data dashboards for leadership and policy in education

FC Curran, S Carlo… - Review of Educational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Systems-level data dashboards, those that provide education data aggregated to or used by
leaders from school to state to federal levels, have become increasingly prevalent in the field …

Education data science: Past, present, future

DA McFarland, S Khanna, BW Domingue… - AERA …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This AERA Open special topic concerns the large emerging research area of education data
science (EDS). In a narrow sense, EDS applies statistics and computational techniques to …

Can digital skills empower disadvantaged castes and women? Evidence from India

CW Liu, TJV Saldanha… - Production and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010

E Frankenberg, CS Fowler, S Asson… - RSF: The Russell Sage …, 2023 - rsfjournal.org
We analyze the relationship between residential populations, school attendance zone
boundaries (AZBs), and school enrollments in two large, countywide suburban districts …

Dividing Lines: Racially Unequal School Boundaries in US Public School Systems. Research Report.

T Monarrez, C Chien - Urban Institute, 2021 - ERIC
Segregation on the basis of race or ethnicity is one of the most enduring and pervasive
inequities in US public education. School segregation is determined not only by residential …

Cameras of merit or engines of inequality? College ranking systems and the enrollment of disadvantaged students

J Chu - American Journal of Sociology, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
The expansion of ranking systems has increased public access to information about
organizations, but there is burgeoning concern that rankings reduce the accessibility of …