Drawing on annual, nationally representative survey data from 2007–2022, I demonstrate
that partisan gaps—the average differences in public opinion between Democrats and …

The increasingly partisan politics of education make it vital to conceptualize why and to
empirically assess how current partisan pressures threaten public schools' efforts to educate …

A central premise of the US No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was that test-based
accountability systems would break through local politics and lead districts to prioritize the …

In this article we propose that nation-wide investment in mental and behavioral health (MBH)
prevention efforts in public schools has the potential for powerful impact on developmental …

Since the 1990s, charter schools have spread rapidly across the nation. The replication and
expansion of charter schools has become a common feature of the portfolio management …

Following record-high public support for improved teacher salaries, many states initiated a
variety of pandemic-era reforms to teacher compensation policies to improve teacher morale …

Despite a long history of local control of schools, educational issues have become
increasingly contested at higher levels of government as battles are fought in state and …

Increasingly, governments report on public service quality, which has the potential to inform
evaluations of performance that underlie voters' opinions and behaviors. We argue these …

Young people today are increasingly disengaged from their education. Studies indicate that
of all school subjects, American students struggle to engage in STEM subjects more than …

Abstract The United States ranks low among peer countries on the ratio of teacher spending
to per capita GDP. Is this (in) efficient? Using a spatial equilibrium model we show that …