Douglas Lee Lauen

Papers

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Published and Forthcoming

Ladd, H. and Lauen, D. (2010) Status versus Growth: The Distributional Effects of School Accountability Policies. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. (pdf)

Lauen, D. (2009) To Choose or Not to Choose: High School Choice and Graduation in Chicago. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 31:179-199. (pdf)

Lauen, D. and K. Tyson (2009) “Sociological contributions to education policy research and debates.” In D. Plank, B. Schneider, and G. Sykes (eds.), Handbook on Education Policy Research (71-82). American Educational Research Association. (pdf)

Lauen, D. (2007) Contextual explanations of school choice. Sociology of Education. 80(3): 179-209. (pdf)

Lauen, D. (2007) False promises: the school choice provisions in the no child left behind act. (in No Child Left Behind and the reduction of the achievement gap: Sociological perspectives on federal educational policy, a peer-reviewed volume, edited by A. Sadovnik, J. O'Day, K. Borman, and G. Bohrnstedt) [Also reprinted in Sociology of education: A critical reader, edited by A. Sadovnik, Routledge, 2007]  (pdf)

Hart, H., Allensworth, E., Lauen, D. & Gladden, M. (2002). Educational technology in Chicago public schools: A baseline report. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago Schools Research.  (pdf)

Levesque, K., Lauen, D., Teitlebaum, P., Alt, M., & Librera, S. (2000). Vocational education in the United States: Toward the year 2000. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center on Educational Statistics. (link)

Rasinski, K., Bradburn, N., & Lauen, D. (1999). The effects of media coverage of the national issues convention on citizen attitudes and opinions. In M. McCombs & A. Reynolds (Eds.), The poll with a human face: The National Issues Convention experiment in political communication. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kaufman, P., Chavez, L., & Lauen, D. (1998). Generational status and educational outcomes among Asian and Hispanic 1988 eighth graders. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center on Educational Statistics. (link)

Working Papers

Please do not cite without permission

Lauen, D. and Gaddis, M. Shining a Light or Fumbling in the Dark? The Effects of NCLB’s Subgroup-Specific Accountability Pressure on Student Performance. Revise and Resubmit.

Lauen, D. and Gaddis, M. Contagion, Institutions, or Selection? The Effect of Peer Poverty on Student Test Score Growth. Under Review. (pdf)

Lauen, D. Jumping at the Chance: The Effects of Teacher Bonuses on Student Achievement. Under Review. (pdf)

Henry, G, Lauen, D, Thompson, C., Fortner, K. Does Poor School Leadership Trump Student Composition in Teachers’ Decisions to Leave their Schools? Under Review.

Lauen, D. and Jennings, J. “Nothing Gold Can Stay: Accountability, Inequality and Achievement.”

Lauen, D. and Gaddis, M. “Closing Achievement Gaps by 2014? Evidence on the Progress of NCLB.”

Lauen, D. and Dauter, L. “Charter School Effects on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Los Angeles.”