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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation brings an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to social innovation research. Through relevant, rigorous research, Price Center faculty explore a variety of topics that seek to inform and advance new models of equity and opportunity for low-income children and families.

Criminal Justice
Literature Review: Fair Chance Policy Impacts

This literature review examines the implementation of Fair Chance and Ban the Box laws and their subsequent impact on justice-involved individuals, employers and their communities.

Housing Instability
Full Report: How do Renters Cope with Unaffordability?

This report presents findings from a survey conducted in 2019, focused on understanding the coping strategies & adjustments that LA renters make in response to high rents.

Criminal Justice
NDSC Criminal Justice Data Initiative: Year 1 Wrap Report

This report provides the project strategy overview, with key findings from analyses of listening sessions and public safety data.

Social Innovation
Towards a Theoretical Framework for Social Impact Bonds

Governments in some of the world’s richest nations appear to be caught in a double challenge of declining social budgets even as social needs are increasing.

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NDSC Criminal Justice Data Initiative: Year 1 Wrap Report

By USC Price Center for Social Innovation, USC Price Safe Communities Institute

Neighborhood Data for Social Change

Year: 2020

The past decade has elevated the urgent need for police reform, brought to the forefront by high-profile police killings and movements like #BlackLivesMatter. To better understand conceptions of public safety and support the growing public interest in criminal justice reform, … Continue reading →

Toward a Framework for Public Accountability in Education Reform

By Ethan Hutt, Morgan S. Polikoff

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

By Cory Koedel, Hovanes Gasparian, Morgan S. Polikoff, Quynh Tien Le, Sarah Rabovsky, Shauna E. Campbell, Tenice Hardaway

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 →

Curriculum Reform in the Common Core Era: Evaluating Elementary Math Textbooks Across Six U.S. States

By Blake Heller, Dan Goldhaber, David Blazar, Douglas N. Harris, Douglas O. Staiger, Kristian L. Holden, Michal Kurlaender, Morgan Polikoff, Rachel Hitch, Scott Carrell, Thomas J. Kane

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Year: 2020

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 →

The Power Divide: Mobile Communication in Los Angeles’ Skid Row

By Francois Bar, Hernan Galperin, Hoan Nguyen

Mobile Media & Communication

Year: 2020

This study explores mobile phone use among people experiencing homelessness in downtown Los Angeles. It explores usage patterns and connectivity challenges, and how these affect access to social services as well as opportunities for information seeking, skills building, and social … Continue reading →

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