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Austin, Wes; Chen, Bingjie; Goldhaber, Dan; Hanushek, Eric; Holden, Kris; Koedel, Cory; Ladd, Helen; Luo, Jin; Parsons, Eric; Phelan, Gregory; Rivkin, Steven; Sass, Tim; Turaeva, Mavzuna – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
Anecdotal evidence points to the importance of school principals, but the limited existing research has neither provided consistent results nor indicated any set of essential characteristics of effective principals. This paper exploits extensive student-level panel data across six states to investigate both variations in principal performance and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, Employment Qualifications, National Competency Tests
Bai, Yifan; Straus, Stephanie; Broer, Markus – American Institutes for Research, 2021
Educational inequality due to family socioeconomic status (SES) has been the focus of both public dialogue and education research in the United States for many years. The current study aims to understand how educational inequality due to family SES has changed in the United States. Specifically, the study focuses on the changes in achievement gaps…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, National Competency Tests, Achievement Gap
Croft, Michelle; Spurrier, Alex; Squire, Juliet; Rotherham, Andrew J. – Bellwether, 2022
With the 2022 midterm elections behind us and 2023 state legislative sessions ahead, policymakers must shift their time and attention from winning reelection to addressing the perfect storm brewing in education. Three significant challenges paint a grim picture for students and public schools unless policymakers step in to help: catastrophic…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Declining Enrollment