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Moving matters: The causal effect of moving schools on student performanceAmy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, Sarah A. Cordes … Moving matters: The causal effect of moving schools on student performance …
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Subgroup Reporting and School Segregation: An Unhappy Pairing in the No Child Left Behind EquationAmy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, Colin Chellman … Subgroup Reporting and School Segregation: An Unhappy Pairing in the No Child Left Behind …
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The Effect of Immigrant Communities on Foreign-Born Student AchievementThis paper explores the effect of the human capital characteristics of co-ethnic immigrant communities on foreign-born students’ math achievement. We use data on New York City public school foreign-born students from 39 countries merged with census data …
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Do Economically Integrated Neighborhoods Have Economically Integrated Schools?The goal of this book, the first in a series, is to bring policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on various aspects of urban and regional policy. What do we know about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, …
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Age of Entry and the High School Performance of Immigrant YouthIn 2005, immigrants exceeded 12% of the US population, with the highest concentrations in large metropolitan areas. While considerable research has focused on how immigrants affect local wages and housing prices, less research has asked how immigrants …
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Concepts of Equity: 1970 to PresentBerne, R., Stiefel, L., Ladd, H.F., Chalk, R. & Hansen, J.S. … Concepts of Equity: 1970 to Present …
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Distinguishing Good Schools from Bad in Principle and Practice: A Comparison of Four MethodsFor over a decade, perhaps no other issue in education has generated the same level of debate and policy activity as school accountability. At their most basic, accountability policies tie school rewards and sanctions to measures of school performance, …
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From districts to schools: The distribution of resources across schools in big city school districtsWhile the distribution of resources across school districts is well studied, relatively little attention has been paid to how resources are allocated to individual schools inside those districts. This paper explores the determinants of resource allocation …
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Racial Segregation in Multiethnic Schools: Adding Immigrants to the AnalysisRacial segregation in America's schools remains persistently and disturbingly high, despite decades of institutional and policy changes. This paper considers one recent change common to many urban school districts - immigration - and examines whether and …
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Immigrant Children and Urban Schools: Evidence from New York City on Segregation and its Consequences for SchoolingImmigrant children represent a large and growing proportion of school children in the United States, especially in urban areas. An estimated 10.4 percent of the U.S. population is now foreign-born (the highest percentage since 1930); and in central …
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Is Special Education Improving? Case Evidence From New York CityIn this study, we assess changes in the education of students with disabilities (SWDs) in the nation’s largest school district, New York City (NYC), over the decade 2005–2015. Specifically, we examine progress toward the twin legislative goals of both the …
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Your Alumni News for December 2017Stay informed Your Alumni News for December 2017 Dear Alumni, I hope this finds you well. As the end of the year approaches, I wanted to thank everyone who has given back to our Wagner family in 2017. It was an exciting finish to the year, both for the …
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School Cost Accounting: What Do We Know and How Do We Get There?This paper describes a model for assessing and reporting schoollevel resources. State and local decision-makers have been seeking ways to obtain such information for more than a decade, but there is as yet no easy, accessible way to do so and no way to …
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The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and OpportunityIngrid Gould Ellen and Justin Steil, eds. … The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity …
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Showing Up: Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism between Students with and without Disabilities in Traditional Public SchoolsLeanna Stiefel, Michael Gottfried, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Bryant Hopkins … Showing Up: Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism between Students with and without Disabilities in Traditional Public …
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Who Feels Included in School? Examining Feelings of Inclusion Among Students With DisabilitiesThe passage of landmark federal legislation in 1975 guaranteed students with disabilities (SWDs) a free appropriate public education. Over time, reauthorization of this legislation has highlighted the importance of educating SWDs in the general education …
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Is Special Education Improving? Evidence on Segregation, Outcomes, and Spending from NYCLeanna Stiefel, Menbere Shiferaw, Michael Gottfried, and Amy Ellen Schwartz … Is Special Education Improving? Evidence on Segregation, Outcomes, and Spending from …
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Showing Up: Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism of students with disabilities compared to general education studentsMichael Gottfried, Leanna Stiefel, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Bryant Hopkins … Showing Up: Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism of students with disabilities compared to general education …
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Who Feels Included in School? Examining Feelings of Inclusion among Students with DisabilitiesLeanna Stiefel, Menbere Shiferaw, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Michael Gottfried … Who Feels Included in School? Examining Feelings of Inclusion among Students with …
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Does High School Size Matter for Risky Behaviors and Mental Health of Low-Income Teenagers? Evidence from New York City.Kai Hong, Sherry Glied, Leanna Stiefel, Sana Fatima and Amy Schwartz … Does High School Size Matter for Risky Behaviors and Mental Health of Low-Income Teenagers? Evidence from New York …
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Is neighbourhood destiny? Exploring the link between neighbourhood mobility and student outcomesThe notion that children from ‘good’ neighbourhoods are destined for success while those from ‘bad’ neighbourhoods are destined for failure has considerable popular appeal. Residential location is strongly linked to school quality, access to educated …
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Your Alumni News for April 2017Dear Alumni, I hope this finds you well. It was great to see so many of you at AlumNite , and I want to thank those who attended and supported this year’s event. We welcomed nearly 200 alumni, faculty, staff, donors, and friends for an engaging evening …
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The Role of School Context in Explaining Racial Disproportionality in Special EducationStiefel, Leanna, Syeda Sana Fatima, Joseph R. Cimpian, and Kaitlyn O’Hagan … The Role of School Context in Explaining Racial Disproportionality in Special …
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Showing Up: Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism between Students with and without Disabilities in Traditional Public SchoolsBackground : While chronic absenteeism hurts all students, one particularly vulnerable group, students with disabilities (SWDs), has received little attention in research or policy. Particularly troubling is the dearth of research into the patterns of …