Author: Margaret Sanderson
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Equity As a Measurement of Success in Charter Schools
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America is in the midst of a contentious debate over whether charter schools are an effective institutional remedy for closing the education gap. The divisive nature of the issue tends to push policymakers, educators, and parents to extremes; observers and stakeholders often fail to acknowledge the unique regional and local…
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How Same-Race Teaching Could Change Our Education System
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Deciphering the causal effects, or “treatment effects”, of different educational designs on student outcomes is an increasingly difficult task in the United States. Understanding these effects is vitally important in order to provide students with the best opportunity for positive educational outcomes. This difficulty in parsing out design outcomes is…
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Solving the Issue of Rising College Drop-Out Rates
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Over the past few decades, research has suggested that there exists a gap in access to higher education for low-income populations in the United States. The attention this problem has received has pushed many colleges to develop new programs to improve access. Recent data does indeed show an improvement: college…