Jonah Deutsch
Associated IES Content
report
Descriptive Study
Using Promotion Power to Identify the Effectiveness of Public High Schools in the District of Columbia
This study estimated the promotion power of public high schools in the District of Columbia. Promotion power is a measure of school effectiveness that distinguishes a school's contributions to student outcomes from the contributions of the background characteristics of the students it serves. Promotion power scores are distinct from status measures such as graduation rate and college enrollment rate because they account for prior student achievement and other student background characteristic...
Sep 07, 2021
resource
Training Material
Using Chronic Absenteeism for School Accountability: An Examination of States' Strategies and Pennsylvania's Accountability Indicator
The REL provided support to the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to develop its capacity on analytic issues related to chronic absenteeism, one of PDE's School Quality and Student Success indicators identified in the state's ESSA plan. This project improved PDE staff's knowledge about how other state ESSA plans measure chronic absenteeism; about how well Pennsylvania's measure usefully differentiates among schools; and about how potential variations in the planned measure of chronic...
Feb 01, 2020
Grant
Improving the Contribution of Schooling to Skills Required for Labor Market Success
Through this 2009 University of Chicago training grant, the program continued to include faculty and recruited fellows from economics, comparative human development, mathematics, psychology, public policy, social services administration, and sociology.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305B090025
Grant
Interdisciplinary Training in Educational Research Methods
The University of Chicago established a predoctoral program called Interdisciplinary Training in Educational Research Methods in conjunction with the departments of economics, psychology, and sociology, as well as several research organizations, including Abt Associates, AIR, the Educational Testing Service, Mathematica Policy Research, MDRC, NORC, and Rand Corporation. Fellows in the program worked with core faculty who conducted education research.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305C050076