Heather L. Schwartz
Education
Overview
Biography
Heather Schwartz researches education and housing policies intended to reduce the negative effects of poverty on children and families. Her work falls in four policy areas intended to help close the income achievement gap: economically integrative housing and school programs, early childhood learning opportunities, school choice, and school accountability measures. She is interested in experimental and non-experimental methods to make causal inferences about the effects of public policies. She recently completed a study of the academic benefits during elementary school of economic integration in schools and neighborhoods for low-income students whose families were randomly assigned to affordable housing in Montgomery County, MD.
Research Focus
Selected Publications
Heather Schwartz "Education," in K. Crane, J. Dobbins, L. Miller, C. Ries, C. Chivvis, M. Haims, M. Overhaus, H. Schwartz, E. Wilke, Building a more resilient Haitian state, RAND Corporation (MG-1039), 2010
Heather Schwartz, The endurance of centralized governance systems in an age of school district decentralization, Working paper, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, 2010
Jill Khadurri, Jennifer Turnham, Heather Schwartz, Policy Roadmap for Expanding School-Centered Community Revitalization, Enterprise Community Partners, 2008
Henry Levin and Heather Schwartz, "Educational Vouchers for Universal Preschools," Economics of Education Review, 26:3-16, 2007
Jill Khadurri, Jennifer Turnham, Heather Schwartz, Reconnecting Schools and Neighborhoods, Enterprise Community Partners, 2007
Clive Belfield, Henry Levin, and Heather Schwartz "School choice and the supply of private schooling places: Evidence from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program," in Henry Levin and Clive Belfield, Privatizing educational choice: Consequences for parents, schools, and public policy, Paradigm Publishers, 2005
Jill Khadurri, Jennifer Turnham, Heather Schwartz, Case studies exploring the potential relationship between schools and neighborhood revitalization, U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2003
Honors & Awards
- Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University
- Iscol Research Fellow for Educational Equity and Policy, Teachers College Columbia University
- Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College
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Narrowing the Economic Achievement Gap: The Role of Housing — Jan 11, 2012