Recent Work
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How Schools Communicate Can Meaningfully Change Parent Opinions
Over the last two school years our Understanding America Study survey of parents with K-12 children in their household helped to shed light on the huge disparities within and across children’s access to, and preferences for, in-person learning.
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While Politicians Fight Over Civic Education, Most Parents and Adults Agree on the Subject
Between mid-April and the end of May 2021, USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research asked 1,510 K-12 parents from the nationally representative Understanding America Study (UAS) how important they feel it is for students to learn about civics education topics in school.
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Evidence of COVID-19’s Impact on K-12 Education Points to Critical Areas of Intervention
Survey data shows remote learners are suffering from lower-quality learning, less quantity and quality of interactions with teachers, and less social interaction with peers.
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Parents’ Perspectives on the Effects of COVID-19 on K-12 Education, April-July 2020
Three-quarters of responding parents support or strongly support schools offering both remote and in-person instruction.
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Rerandomization: What Is It and Why Should You Use It For Random Assignment?
In this post, we explain the rerandomization procedure and provide an example to illustrate its benefits. This topic will be of interest primarily to those involved with RCTs, and those interested in a relatively new, advantageous, and intuitive method for randomizing units into treatment groups.
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