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Stephen B. Billings; Hugh Macartney; Geunyong Park; John D. Singleton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
In this paper, we show that the election of a new school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise. This increase is identified using narrowly-decided contests and is driven by non-Democratic members, whose neighborhoods appreciate about 4% on average relative to those of losing candidates. We find that student test scores in…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Board Candidates, Elections, Motivation
Stuart, Reginald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
Today, a national economy gone bust has derailed Black Americans' plans across the country. Gone are many of the economic gains, small as they were, achieved in the post-segregation era by millions of 1960s generation children and their children. Black America today is beset by job losses, business closures, pay cuts, furloughs, investment and…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Purchasing, Affirmative Action, African Americans