States as Sites of Educational (In)Equality: State Contexts and the Socioeconomic Achievement Gradient

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Heewon Jang, Stanford University; Sean Reardon, Stanford University

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Jang, Heewon, and Reardon, Sean. States as Sites of Educational (In)Equality: State Contexts and the Socioeconomic Achievement Gradient. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-11-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E115841V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary These files contain the data files and programs used to generate the estimates found in “States as Sites of Educational (In)Equality: State Contexts and the Socioeconomic Achievement Gradient” published in AERA Open, 2019.

The abstract for the paper is found below:

Socioeconomic achievement gaps have long been a central focus of educational research. However, not much is known about how (and why) between-district gaps vary among states, even though states are a primary organizational level in the decentralized education system in the United States. Using data from the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), this study describes state-level socioeconomic achievement gradients and the growth of these gradients from Grades 3 to 8. We also examine state-level correlates of the gradients and their growth, including school system funding equity, preschool enrollment patterns, the distribution of teachers, income inequality, and segregation. We find that socioeconomic gradients and their growth rates vary considerably among states, and that between-district income segregation is positively associated with the socioeconomic achievement gradient.

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Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2009 – 2016

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Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation school districts, states
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit school districts

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