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Darwin This guide identifies practices that can improve the performance of chronically low-performing schools — a process commonly referred to as creating “turnaround schools.” The four recommendations in this guide work together to help failing schools make adequate yearly progress. Learn more Published Research National Security Why Spy: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty Authors: Frederick P. Hitz What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous world of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the “war on terrorism”? And how can the United States recruit spies to inform its struggle with Islamic fundamentalists’ acts of anti-Western jihad? Learn more Published Research Social Psychology The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order Authors: Jennifer Hochschild, Vesla Weaver Dark-skinned blacks in the United States have lower socioeconomic status, more punitive relationships with the criminal justice system, diminished prestige, and less likelihood of holding elective office compared with their lighter counterparts. This phenomenon of “colorism” both occurs within the African American community and is expressed by outsiders, and most blacks are aware of it. Learn more Published Research Ethics Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy Authors: Vesla M. Weaver Civil rights cemented its place on the national agenda with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fair housing legislation, federal enforcement of school integration, and the outlawing of discriminatory voting mechanisms in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Less recognized but no less important, the Second Reconstruction also witnessed one of the most punitive interventions in United States history. Learn more Published Research Leadership Technology and Voter Intent: Evidence from the California Recall Election Authors: Thomas Dee Conventional evaluations of voting systems focus on ballots for which no vote can be recorded (that is, “residual” votes). However, recorded votes that misrepresent voter intent are another potentially important, but less easily measured, source of error. Learn more Published Research The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High‐Poverty Schools Authors: James H. Wyckoff, Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff In this research we explore the how the distribution of teacher qualifications and student achievement in New York City have changed from 2000 through 2005 using data on teachers and students. Learn more Published Research Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment Authors: Sarah Turner, John Bound Analyses of college attainment typically focus on factors affecting enrollment demand, including the financial attractiveness of a college education and the availability of financial aid, while implicitly assuming that resources available per student on the supply side of the market are elastically supplied. The higher education market in the United States is dominated by public and non-profit production, and colleges and universities receive considerable subsidies from state, federal, and private sources. Learn more Published Research Education Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement Authors: Thomas Dee A prominent class of explanations for the gender gaps in student outcomes focuses on the interactions between students and teachers. In this study, I examine whether assignment to a same-gender teacher influences student achievement, teacher perceptions of student performance, and student engagement. Learn more Published Research Bottom-Up Federalism: The Diffusion of Antismoking Policies from U.S. Cities to States Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan Studies of policy diffusion often focus on the horizontal spread of enactments from one state to another, paying little or no attention to the effects of local laws on state-level adoptions. For example, scholars have not tested whether local policy adoptions make state action more likely (through a snowball effect) or less likely (through a pressure valve effect). Learn more Published Research Race, Income and College in 25 Years: Evaluating Justice O'Connor's Conjecture Authors: Sarah Turner, Alan Krueger, Jesse Rothstein The rate at which racial gaps in pre-collegiate academic achievement can plausibly be expected to erode is a matter of great interest and much uncertainty. In her opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, Supreme Court Justice O’Connor took a firm stand: “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary …” Learn more Published Research Opportunities for Low Income Students at Top Colleges and Universities: Policy Initiatives and the Distribution of Students Authors: Sarah Turner, Amanada Pallais Whether the nation’s most selective and resource-intensive colleges and universities serve as “engines of opportunity” rather than “bastions of privilege” depends on the extent to which they increase the educational attainment of students from the most economically disadvantaged backgrounds (Bowen, Kurzweil, and Tobin, 2005). Less than 11 percent of first-year students matriculating at 20 highly-selective institutions are from the bottom quartile of the income distribution, leading to significant concerns from higher education leaders and policy makers about the role of higher education in promoting intergenerational mobility. 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Published Research A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Michael M. Ting, Daniel P. Carpenter We present a model of learning and policy choice across governments. Governments choose policies with known ideological positions but initially unknown valence benefits, possibly learning about those benefits between the model’s two periods. Learn more
Published Research Education Turning around Chronically Low-Performing Schools: A Practice Guide Authors: T. Dee, R. Herman, P. Dawson, J. Greene, S. Redding, M. Darwin This guide identifies practices that can improve the performance of chronically low-performing schools — a process commonly referred to as creating “turnaround schools.” The four recommendations in this guide work together to help failing schools make adequate yearly progress. Learn more
Published Research National Security Why Spy: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty Authors: Frederick P. Hitz What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous world of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the “war on terrorism”? And how can the United States recruit spies to inform its struggle with Islamic fundamentalists’ acts of anti-Western jihad? Learn more
Published Research Social Psychology The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order Authors: Jennifer Hochschild, Vesla Weaver Dark-skinned blacks in the United States have lower socioeconomic status, more punitive relationships with the criminal justice system, diminished prestige, and less likelihood of holding elective office compared with their lighter counterparts. This phenomenon of “colorism” both occurs within the African American community and is expressed by outsiders, and most blacks are aware of it. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy Authors: Vesla M. Weaver Civil rights cemented its place on the national agenda with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fair housing legislation, federal enforcement of school integration, and the outlawing of discriminatory voting mechanisms in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Less recognized but no less important, the Second Reconstruction also witnessed one of the most punitive interventions in United States history. Learn more
Published Research Leadership Technology and Voter Intent: Evidence from the California Recall Election Authors: Thomas Dee Conventional evaluations of voting systems focus on ballots for which no vote can be recorded (that is, “residual” votes). However, recorded votes that misrepresent voter intent are another potentially important, but less easily measured, source of error. Learn more
Published Research The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High‐Poverty Schools Authors: James H. Wyckoff, Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff In this research we explore the how the distribution of teacher qualifications and student achievement in New York City have changed from 2000 through 2005 using data on teachers and students. Learn more
Published Research Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment Authors: Sarah Turner, John Bound Analyses of college attainment typically focus on factors affecting enrollment demand, including the financial attractiveness of a college education and the availability of financial aid, while implicitly assuming that resources available per student on the supply side of the market are elastically supplied. The higher education market in the United States is dominated by public and non-profit production, and colleges and universities receive considerable subsidies from state, federal, and private sources. Learn more
Published Research Education Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement Authors: Thomas Dee A prominent class of explanations for the gender gaps in student outcomes focuses on the interactions between students and teachers. In this study, I examine whether assignment to a same-gender teacher influences student achievement, teacher perceptions of student performance, and student engagement. Learn more
Published Research Bottom-Up Federalism: The Diffusion of Antismoking Policies from U.S. Cities to States Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan Studies of policy diffusion often focus on the horizontal spread of enactments from one state to another, paying little or no attention to the effects of local laws on state-level adoptions. For example, scholars have not tested whether local policy adoptions make state action more likely (through a snowball effect) or less likely (through a pressure valve effect). Learn more
Published Research Race, Income and College in 25 Years: Evaluating Justice O'Connor's Conjecture Authors: Sarah Turner, Alan Krueger, Jesse Rothstein The rate at which racial gaps in pre-collegiate academic achievement can plausibly be expected to erode is a matter of great interest and much uncertainty. In her opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, Supreme Court Justice O’Connor took a firm stand: “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary …” Learn more
Published Research Opportunities for Low Income Students at Top Colleges and Universities: Policy Initiatives and the Distribution of Students Authors: Sarah Turner, Amanada Pallais Whether the nation’s most selective and resource-intensive colleges and universities serve as “engines of opportunity” rather than “bastions of privilege” depends on the extent to which they increase the educational attainment of students from the most economically disadvantaged backgrounds (Bowen, Kurzweil, and Tobin, 2005). Less than 11 percent of first-year students matriculating at 20 highly-selective institutions are from the bottom quartile of the income distribution, leading to significant concerns from higher education leaders and policy makers about the role of higher education in promoting intergenerational mobility. Learn more