Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Campus climate assessment has been an important strategy for improving students’ racialized experiences and racial equity in higher education. But when these assessments lack critical interventions in structural racism, they are easily co-opted to keep ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 159-184, March 2025.
Despite a growing body of research on the outcomes of holistic admissions and eliminating standardized test score requirements throughout education, few have documented how organizations transition to holistic review. Implementation, however, may help ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 135-158, March 2025.
We conduct an impact analysis on a unique technology certificate and apprenticeship program offered by LaunchCode. We merge administrative data containing entrance exam scores with survey data for individuals that were (a) not accepted, (b) accepted but ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 65-88, March 2025.
We evaluate the effects of grade retention on students’ academic, attendance, and disciplinary outcomes in Indiana. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that third-grade retention increases achievement in English Language Arts (ELA) and math ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 3-28, March 2025.
This study examines whether the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE-IT grant program identifies and funds institutions that improve faculty gender equity. By using matching procedures and a two-way fixed-effect event study, we find that when ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 237-262, March 2025.
We estimate the effects of Race to the Top (RTTT) on teacher qualifications, work environments, and job attitudes. Drawing on the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey, we create a nationally representative data set of ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 108-134, March 2025.
Few interventions reduce inequality in reading achievement, let alone higher-order thinking skills, among adolescents. We study policy debate—an extracurricular activity focused on improving middle and high schoolers’ critical thinking, argumentation, and ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 185-207, March 2025.
I examine whether the impact of the Great Recession on school district spending, the allocation of resources, and student achievement varied depending on the strength of state’s teachers’ unions. Employing a diff-in-diff-in-diff identification strategy, I ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 29-64, March 2025.
Aggregated data meta-analyses indicate a correlation between instructional leadership and student achievement. However, it is unclear to what extent this relationship can be generalized across cultural contexts, as most primary studies stem from ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 263-291, March 2025.
Professional development (PD) for teachers is a ubiquitous feature of the American educational landscape. Yet we know little about how districts navigate the variation in teacher learning needs when designing and implementing district-wide PD programs. In ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 89-107, March 2025.
Frames shape public opinion on policy issues, with implications for policy adoption and agenda-setting. What impact do common issue frames for racial equity in education have on voters’ support for racially equitable education policy? Across survey ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 208-236, March 2025.
Despite evidence that informational interventions can influence K–12 school choices, we know little about the mechanisms through which they work and the factors that produce heterogeneity in student responses. Through a school-level randomized controlled ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 292-305, March 2025.
Districts with expansive school choice must decide how to match students and schools. Increasingly, districts are centralizing applications on one-stop portals that feature information about schooling options, admission requirements, and a single ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
The number of English learners (ELs) enrolled in public schools has grown substantially in the United States over the past two decades. The growth is especially large in states in the South and Midwest that have not been traditional destinations for ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
This paper examines how relationships among government and “outside” organizations influenced policy implementation of new dropout prediction data systems. Using comparative historical and network analyses of three cities, I suggest the concept of ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
This paper examines the relationship between subject specialization in high school and university undergraduate degree program choices. Focusing on a reform in England that encouraged students to opt for studying mathematics in the last 2 years of high ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
We present the 2-year experimental mixed-methods findings of a two-generation English as a second language (ESL) program. This program combines a high-dosage, child-oriented curriculum for parents with Head Start for children in addition to family-based ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Recent research has shown the ways in which immigration enforcement actions can affect educational outcomes for all students, regardless of their immigrant status. One consequence of particular concern is student absenteeism, a non-academic indicator used ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Many school districts consider family preferences in allocating students to schools. In theory, this approach provides disadvantaged families greater access to high-quality schools by weakening the link between residential location and school assignment. ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
A growing body of scholarship foregrounds research–practice partnerships (RPPs) as venues for advancing equity in education. However, few studies focus on partnerships with state education agency leaders, despite their influential roles connecting policy ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Many schools across the United States use the Early Warning System (EWS) to identify chronically absent students on time and intervene. The prediction power of the EWS is well examined but more evidence is needed about their effectiveness at reducing ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Many educational policies hinge on the valid measurement of student economic disadvantage at the school level. Measures based on free and reduced-price lunch enrollment are used widely. However, recent research raises questions about their reliability, ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
AB705 is a landmark higher education policy that has changed approaches to developmental/remedial education in the California Community College system. We study one district that implemented reforms by placing most students in transfer-level math/English ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
This study examines the impact of instruction modality on student learning outcomes, with a focus on disparities observed pre- and post-pandemic. Using administrative data from a public university spanning seven pre-pandemic and five post-pandemic ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Measures of student disadvantage—or risk—are critical components of equity-focused education policies. However, the risk measures used in contemporary policies have significant limitations, and despite continued advances in data infrastructure and ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Many students work during college to offset rising costs, but significant time on the job affects postsecondary outcomes. Analyzing the High School Longitudinal Study (N = 4,418), this article estimates the effects of hours worked on grades, credits ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
The success of students with disabilities (SWDs) depends on access to high-quality general education teachers. Yet, teacher value-added measures (VAMs) generally fail to distinguish between effectiveness in educating students with or without disabilities. ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
We use a novel linkage of school district administrative data to Internal Revenue Service records to study educators’ post-exit career outcomes. The majority of leavers remain in education and mean earnings are slightly below pre-exit earnings even 8 ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
This article reports on the impacts of a nudge intervention designed to narrow the gender gap in technology education. I randomly assigned approximately 4,000 college freshmen to one of three advising interventions during new student orientation. Students ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Detroit students who obtain a college degree overcome many obstacles to do so. This article reports the results of a randomized evaluation of a program meant to provide support to low-income community college students. The Detroit Promise Path program was ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Can public university Honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate education within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large nonselective public ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Middle school transitions are increasingly required, despite documented negative effects on general education students (GENs). We explore if and how the move to middle school differentially affects students with disabilities (SWDs), a large and low-...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Twenty-nine states require or allow all 11th graders to take the ACT or SAT in school, for free, eliminating access to testing as a barrier to college entry. I examine whether this affects postsecondary outcomes using state-aggregated panel data and time-...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Using administrative data of center-based child care providers in North Carolina from 2005 to 2018, we provide the first direct evidence on the effects of competition on provider quality and student outcomes in the context of early care and education, ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Although the COVID pandemic dramatically expanded K–12 remote learning in its first years, little is known about the lasting effects on virtual schooling policies and practices. Drawing on evolutionary theories of change and qualitative data from 2019 to ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Limited literature has investigated the effects of state and institutional merit-based financial aid on student choice of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) major fields, an unintended consequence with important implications. By ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Little research has examined how K–12 fiscal accountability policies and practices intersect with district finances and student outcomes during periods of economic crises. Employing a critical policy analysis perspective that distinguishes between the ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
While there is a growing body of literature related to the benefits of participation in career and technical education (CTE) in high school, there remains a dearth of causal work in this area. Relying on administrative data from Baltimore City Public ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Although research indicates that individual students benefit when they enroll in early algebra classes, evaluations of broad-based algebra acceleration often report negative effects. Using a regression discontinuity design, we replicate the positive ...

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Research on racial disproportionality in special education has exploded, in part due to federal accountability related to over- or under representation of specific racial groups. Some recent research shifts the focus from the role of student ...