November 19, 2014 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Meeting time is 12:00 – 1:00pm. Lunch will be provided. The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.
Event Type: Public Policy Working Group
Sponsored By: Murphy Institute , Center for Public Policy Research
Dr. Santillano joined the Education Research Alliance team after spending five years as a research economist at Mathematica Policy Research. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on the integration of immigrant students in public schools. He will present work on the relationship between school accountability policies and market-based education reforms. Specifically, Louisiana’s test-based accountability system incentivizes schools to distort the distribution of scores in favor of students close to proficiency thresholds. Market-based reforms may intensify these distortions since schools are now competing for students, make autonomous resource-allocation decisions, and face more direct shut-down pressures.
Dr. Santillano will present research on whether there is evidence of schools responding to these distortionary incentives in the state, and test whether they have intensified in New Orleans after market-based reforms were introduced. The work is joint with Era-NO colleagues, Doug Harris and Jon Valant.
Filed Under: Public Policy Working Group , Center For Public Policy Research
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