The question of educational equity involves the gap in achievement between minority and nonminority students. RAND has conducted research into the effects of grouping students by ability, preschool participation, charter programs, and school funding on schools' abilities to provide equal education to students of varying socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.
PERIODICAL
Andreas Schleicher of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development provides a global perspective on what drives high-performing educational systems.
REPORT
Hurricane Katrina set the stage for a transformation of public education in New Orleans, replacing the city's existing school system with a decentralized choice-based system of both charter and district-run schools. Using principal, teacher, and parent surveys administered three years after Katrina, this study examined schools' governance and operations, educational contexts, educator quality and mobility, and parental choice and…
RESEARCH BRIEF
RAND researchers found many similarities between charter and traditional schools in New Orleans but greater satisfaction among charter school parents with their children's schools, as well as more perceived choices.
NEWS RELEASE
"Darleen Opfer has excelled as a teacher, working with policymakers, and in academia, where she has explored education policy and school improvement," said RAND President and CEO James A. Thomson.
REPORT
Examines the contribution of family, school, and neighborhood factors to the racial achievement gap in education.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This chapter discusses educational politics and policy process research and illustrates the ways research can utilize a transdisciplinary approach to address educational concerns of equity, efficiency, student learning, and educational outcomes.
NEWS RELEASE
More than half of California’s preschoolers attend center-based early care and education programs, but the children who have the most to gain from preschool frequently are those least likely to participate in the programs.
REPORT
Chicago's multi-grade charter high schools (those serving students in grades 7-12, 6-12 or K-12) appear to improve their students' chances of graduating and attending college, as compared with the city's traditional public high schools.
MULTIMEDIA
RAND experts field questions from the media on the report Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
In this study, the authors find that Michigan's high-spending school districts have a greater probability of issuing bonds after centralizing public school funding, indicating that debt financing of capital expenditures may have become a mechanism to allow these school districts to circumvent the policy's intent for greater spending equity.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Schools across the country are ending the practice of grouping students based on ability, in part because of research indicating that tracking hurts low-ability students without helping students of other ability levels.
REPORT
Describes outcomes of school finance reform in California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, and New Mexico.
REPORT
Pools time-series, cross-sectional data to estimate school districts' responses to the fiscal incentives implicit in a guaranteed tax base plan introduced in l973.
PEOPLE
Senior Economist
Ph.D. in economics, Johns Hopkins University; M.S. in economics, Illinois Institute of Technology; B.S. in economics, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Social Scientist
Ph.D. in sociology, Harvard University
PEOPLE
Director, RAND Education; Distinguished Chair in Education Policy
Ph.D. in education policy studies, University of Virginia; M.Ed. in behavior disorders, University of Virginia; B.A. in education, Stetson University
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Assistant Policy Analyst
M.Phil. (Ph.D. candidate) in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; B.S. in mathematics, Samford University
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