School boards and student segregation

High School Socioeconomic Segregation and Student Attainment

Retrospective Voting in Single Function Elections: School Boards and Student Achievement By

For too long, research on retrospective voting has fixated on how economic trends impact incumbents’ electoral prospects in national and state elections. Hundreds of thousands of elections in the United States occur at the local level and have little to do with unemployment or inflation rates. This paper focuses on the most prevalent: school boards. Specifically, it examines whether voters hold...

Measuring school segregation

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregation indices: the Atkinson Indices for the class of school districts with a given …xed number of ethnic groups and the Mutual Information Index for the class of all districts. Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed. In an empirical application, we document a weakening of the e¤ect of ethnicity...

School Reform, School Size, and Student Achievement

by Randall W. Eberts, Ellen Kehoe Schwartz, and Joe A. Stone Randall W. Eberts is an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Ellen Kehoe Schwartz is a research evaluator with the General Accounting Office; and Joe A. Stone is the W.E. Miner Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon. This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Ed...

School Climate and Student Learning

Disclaimer: This student paper was prepared in 2014 in partial completion of the requirements for the Master's Project, a major assignment for the Master of Public Policy Program at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. The research, analysis, and policy alternatives and recommendations contained in this paper are the work of the student who authored the document, and do not r...