Research
Papers produced by (and using data from) the Stanford Education Data Archive
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The First Year of Pandemic Recovery: A District-Level Analysis
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The distribution of child physicians and early academic achievement
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Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Student Learning? A National Analysis of Growth Rates
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School District and Community Factors Associated With Learning Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Uneven Progress: Recent Trends in Academic Performance Among U.S. School Districts
Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps
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States as Sites of Educational (In)Equality: State Contexts and the Socioeconomic Achievement Gradient
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Gender Achievement Gaps in U.S. School Districts
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Educational Opportunity in Early and Middle Childhood: Using Full Population Administrative Data to Study Variation by Place and Age
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The Relationship Between Test Item Format and Gender Achievement Gaps on Math and ELA Tests in 4th and 8th Grade
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Test Score Growth Among Chicago Public School Students, 2009-2014
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How much do test scores vary among school districts? New estimates using population data, 2009-2015
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Differences in educational opportunity predict white matter development
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Why Did So Many Public Schools Stay Remote During the COVID Crisis?
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Extreme Measures: A National Descriptive Analysis of Closure and Restructuring of Traditional Public, Charter, and Private Schools
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District-Level School Choice and Racial/Ethnic Test Score Gaps
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How Do Charter Schools Affect System-Level Test Scores and Graduation Rates? A National Analysis
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Evaluating Education Governance: Does State Takeover of School Districts Affect Student Achievement?
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Racial and Socioeconomic Test-Score Gaps in New England Metropolitan Areas: State School Aid and Poverty Segregation
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Parents’ Online School Reviews Reflect Several Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in K–12 Education
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Identifying Progress Toward Ethnoracial Achievement Equity across U.S. School Districts: A New Approach
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The Reversal of Mount Laurel’s Regional Contribution Agreements and the Impact on White-Black Academic Achievement Gaps Across New Jersey: 2008–2014
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Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on School Finance and Achievement: Evidence from Oklahoma
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Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality
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The opioid crisis and community-level spillovers onto children’s education
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Personal Belief Exemptions for School Entry Vaccinations, Vaccination Rates, and Academic Achievement
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Universal Access to Free School Meals and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
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Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
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County-Level Rates of Implicit Bias Predict Black-White Test Score Gaps in U.S. Schools
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Bias in the Air: A Nationwide Exploration of Teachers' Implicit Racial Attitudes, Aggregate Bias, and Student Outcomes
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The Effects of Student Growth Data on School District Choice: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
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Are Achievement Gaps Related to Discipline Gaps? Evidence From National Data
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Immigration Enforcement and Student Achievement in the Wake of Secure Communities
SEDA 2022 Special Release Technical Documentation
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Using Pooled Heteroskedastic Ordered Probit Models to Improve Small-Sample Estimates of Latent Test Score Distributions
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Can Repeated Aggregate Cross-Sectional Data Be Used to Measure Average Student Learning Rates? A Validation Study of Learning Rate Measures in the Stanford Education Data Archive
Stanford Education Data Archive Technical Documentation
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Validation methods for aggregate-level test scale linking: A case study mapping school district test score distributions to a common scale
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Using Heteroskedastic Ordered Probit Models to Recover Moments of Continuous Test Score Distributions from Coarsened Data
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Practical Issues in Estimating Achievement Gaps from Coarsened Data
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