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Assessing School District Decision Making: In-Person Schooling and COVID-19 Transmission
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Alvin Christian; Brian Jacob; John D. Singleton – Grantee Submission, 2025
Recent controversies have highlighted the importance of local school district governance, but little empirical evidence exists evaluating the quality of district policy makers or policies. In this paper, we take a novel approach to assessing school district decision making. We posit a model of rational decision making under uncertainty that…
Descriptors: School Districts, Decision Making, In Person Learning, COVID-19
Assessing School District Decision Making: In-Person Schooling and COVID-19 Transmission
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Alvin Christian; Brian Jacob; John D. Singleton – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
Recent controversies have highlighted the importance of local school district governance, but little empirical evidence exists evaluating the quality of district policy makers or policies. In this paper, we take a novel approach to assessing school district decision making. We posit a model of rational decision making under uncertainty that…
Descriptors: School Districts, Decision Making, In Person Learning, COVID-19
The Effects of Race-Based Affirmative Action in Texas. Policy Brief
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Akhtari, Mitra; Bau, Natalie; Laliberté, Jean-William – Texas Education Research Center, 2018
Race-based affirmative action policies are widespread in higher education. Despite the prevalence of these policies, there is little consensus on how affirmative action policies affect students either before they reach college or after they matriculate into college. This study provides new evidence on the benefits of affirmative action policies…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Racial Factors, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation