The Segregation index uses exposure indices to measure the school composition that the average student of a given racial group is “exposed” to.
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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.
Measuring Segregation With The Normalized Exposure Index
Year: 2022
There are two broad approaches to measuring segregation: measures of exposure and measures of evenness. Exposure indices measure the school composition that the average student of a given racial group is “exposed” to — e.g., a White-Hispanic exposure value of … Continue reading
Trends In Racial/Ethnic And Economic School Segregation, 1991-2020
Year: 2022
Seventy years after legal decisions like Mendez v. Westminster and Brown v. Board of Education outlawed separate school systems on the basis of race, school segregation in the U.S. persists, with pernicious consequences for educational equity. Racial/ethnic and economic school … Continue reading
Evaluating the Emergency Aid Programs at USC and Los Angeles Community College District
USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation
Year: 2021
The Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation established emergency aid programs at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) in 2019. Although the programs differ slightly in their application and disbursement processes, both programs provide cash … Continue reading
Toward a Framework for Public Accountability in Education Reform
SAGE Publications
Year: 2020
Public accountability through information disclosure is a pillar of modern education reform efforts. Despite the ubiquity of this approach, we argue that public accountability in education is under-theorized and often predictably unlikely to achieve its intended policy goals. Drawing on … Continue reading
The Formalized Processes Districts Use to Evaluate Mathematics Textbooks
Journal of Curriculum Studies
Year: 2020
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