In its third year of implementation, the Leonetti/ O’Connell Family Foundation’s emergency aid programs at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) have continued to provide direct cash assistance to students experiencing financial hardships
Despite decades of traditional policy approaches to closing the achievement gap, disparities in educational attainment still exist by race and socioeconomic economic circumstances. The Price Center conducts research to develop, scale, and diffuse new models and processes to improve educational attainment across all grade levels, including postsecondary education.
The Segregation index uses exposure indices to measure the school composition that the average student of a given racial group is “exposed” to.
Seventy years after legal decisions outlawed separate school systems on the basis of race, school segregation in the U.S. persists.
The proposed framework could provide guidance for policymakers considering new efforts at improving schools through the production and dissemination of educational data.
This article estimates the impact of School in the Park, a museum-based educational program for low-income students in the museums of San Diego’s Balboa Park.
The Top Los Angeles County Public Schools for Underserved Students report highlights schools closing the achievement gap for low-income African American and Latino students.
The Formalized Processes Districts Use to Evaluate Mathematics Textbooks
Journal of Curriculum Studies
Textbooks are a widely used educational intervention that can affect student achievement, and the marginal cost of choosing a more effective textbook is typically small. However, we know little about how textbooks get from the publisher to the classroom. The … Continue reading
Curriculum Reform in the Common Core Era: Evaluating Elementary Math Textbooks Across Six U.S. States
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Can a school or district improve student achievement simply by switching to a higher quality textbook or curriculum? We conducted the first multi-textbook, multi-state effort to estimate textbook efficacy following widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and … Continue reading
Museums as Classrooms: The Academic and Behavioral Impacts of “School in the Park”
American Educational Research Association
Access to community cultural institutions such as museums, zoos, and theaters has the potential to improve students’ educational experiences. This article estimates the impact of School in the Park, a museum-based educational program for low-income students that takes place within … Continue reading
2020 Top Los Angeles County Public Schools
Innovate Public Schools
The annual Top Public Schools report celebrates the 278 schools closing the opportunity gap for low-income Black and Latino students in Los Angeles County. What is a Top Public School? Top Public Schools are schools that are beating the statewide … Continue reading
The Supplemental Curriculum Bazaar: Is What’s Online Any Good?
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
In the current study, University of Southern California associate professor Morgan Polikoff and educational consultant Jennifer Dean led an analysis of supplemental materials for high school English language arts (ELA), an area where teachers are highly likely to supplement their … Continue reading