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Fast Facts… in the Federal Govt sector 1% are obtaining further education. Employment status is unknown for 27% of the …
Capstone Projects
STRATEGIC OUTREACH PLAN TO PROMOTE A VOTING TOOL FOR RETURNING CITIZENS Hip Hop Caucus (HHC) is a national, nonprofit, and non-partisan organization that connects the hip hop community to the civic process to build power and create positive change. HHC’s Respect My Vote! Campaign empowers first time voters to cast their …
Capstone Projects
IMPACTS ON HOUSING STABILITYIn 2014, New York City (NYC) adopted its first Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) program, which promises to offer publicly funded pre-kindergarten to all New Yorkers. The Capstone team investigated the impact of NYC’s UPK on housing stability. Studies have …
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Desvinculado y Desigual: Is Segregation Harmful to Latinos?Despite the high levels of metropolitan-area segregation that Latinos experience, there is a lack of research examining the effects of segregation on Latino socioeconomic outcomes and whether those effects differ from the negative effects documented for …
Stories
Student Spotlight: Sita Goetschius (MPA 2023)… context of serving New York City. I’ve loved working in education and supporting fellow students from marginalized … to be in major institutions that shape our world. A Wagner education grants a certain kind of privilege to be seen as an … I was particularly excited about the panel the Wagner Education Network organized– through the lenses of teachers …
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NYU Wagner Graduates Are Finalists for Robin Hood Foundation College Success Prize… behavioral ideas lab. The trio of finalists—Beyond 12, Education Advisory Board, and Kinvolved—were selected on …
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A critical Review of Race and Ethnicity in the Leadership Literature: Surfacing Context, Power and the Collective Dimensions of Leadership.… of people of color from context-rich research within education, communications and black studies remain marginal …
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The Political Economy of School Choice: Support for Charter Schools Across States and School Districts… Public charter schools are one of the fastest growing education reforms in the US, currently serving more than a …
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Primary Care, Social Inequality, and Stroke Mortality in U.S. States--a Longitudinal Analysis, 1985-1995… years of state-level data (n=549). Analyses controlled for education levels, unemployment, racial/ethnic composition, …
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Evidence-Based Management in HealthcareToo often in the fast-moving healthcare field, decision makers rely primarily on what has worked before. Evidence-Based Management in Healthcare explains how healthcare leaders can move from making educated guesses to using the best available information …
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Hidden Talent: Tacit Skill Formation and Labor Market Incorporation of Latino Immigrants in the United StatesThis article examines informal training and skill development pathways of Latino immigrant construction workers in two different urban labor markets: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. We find that institutional differences …
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Distinguishing Good Schools from Bad in Principle and Practice: A Comparison of Four Methods… For over a decade, perhaps no other issue in education has generated the same level of debate and policy …
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School Budgeting and School Performance: The Impact of New York City’s Performance Driven Budgeting Initiative… school-level data provided by the New York City Board of Education, we construct a panel dataset of 609 elementary and …
Alumni In Action
Chrissy Kiernan… expert in administration in the public sector by obtaining education in best practices, to give myself the ability to …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Wage Negotiation Platform to Narrow the Gender and Race Wage Gap… gap is "explained" by characteristics such as experience, education, and occupation. However, over 20 percent of the …
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Developmental Evaluation Guide for the ECEI Pilot Program… end dating abuse and domestic violence through community education, supportive services, legal advocacy, and …
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ESTABLISHING THE VIRTUAL URGENT CARE TELE-PREP PROGRAMNYU Virtual Urgent Care is a 24/7 video chat service that allows patients to connect with a NYU Langone Health care provider from the privacy of their home. NYU Langone Health tasked a team with spearheading the launch of a Virtual Urgent Care program for …
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ADDRESSING HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR WOMEN IN PUNJAB, INDIA… and unsafe transportation options, and a lack of access to education and skills development for women. To address this …
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Examining the Internal Validity and Statistical Precision of the Comparative Interrupted Time Series Design by Comparison With a Randomized ExperimentAlthough evaluators often use an interrupted time series (ITS) design to test hypotheses about program effects, there are few empirical tests of the design’s validity. We take a randomized experiment on an educational topic and compare its effects to …
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Analysis of Lice Policies in Indiana Elementary SchoolsThe presence of lice is a public nuisance, the impact of which extends beyond the scalp. Not only can treating lice be costly with treatments ranging from $10 to $100, but also students may miss multiple days of school as a result of strict lice policies, …
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Re-Conceptualizing the Juvenile Justice ContinuumCitizens Committee for Children (CCC) is a nonprofit, multi-issue, child advocacy organization that works to secure every childs birthright to be healthy, housed, educated, and safe. CCC requested a Capstone team to assist them in a project examining …
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Gentrification and the Lower East Side: A Study on the Impact of Gentrification on a Private Jesuit Middle School… on the Lower East Side whose mission is to provide quality education to underserved children. The Capstone team was …
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Career Services in the Jewish Immigrant and Haredi Communities of NYC… Preliminary findings include noticeable communal trends in education and employment, as well as a need for systematic …
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Laying the Groundwork for a New HIV/AIDS Public Awareness CampaignThe New York AIDS Coalition (NYAC) is an alliance of more than 200 HIV/AIDS service organizations in New York City and State. Recently, NYACs members became aware that the general public is still uneducated and apathetic about HIV/AIDS. To assess the …