The intersection of childhood health environments and educational opportunity
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Standardized test scores are the most common measure by which the United States evaluates its public school system. These test scores are also one of the primary mechanisms by which opportunity is distributed to students throughout the country. These practices continue despite the fact that researchers and policymakers know that social conditions have a large influence on test scores. This dissertation is comprised of three papers that use population-level data to examine the role of specific environmental health factors in explaining variation in national test scores. The first paper examines the role of the opioid crisis in disrupting third-grade achievement scores across U.S. counties. The second paper builds upon the first paper by investigating associations between the opioid crisis and learning rates for different groups of students. The third paper contributes a unique measure of health access by calculating the physician-to-child-population ratio for every school district in the country. This paper describes the distribution of physicians trained in pediatric care, describes the groups of students who are served by that distribution, and ultimately describes the link between the distribution and early childhood academic achievement. Together, these three papers suggest the importance of exploring non-educational factors when seeking to explain national variation in test scores.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Drescher, Jessica Christine |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | reardon, sean |
| Thesis advisor | reardon, sean |
| Thesis advisor | Domingue, Ben |
| Thesis advisor | Humphreys, Keith |
| Degree committee member | Domingue, Ben |
| Degree committee member | Humphreys, Keith |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jessica Christine Drescher. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/zg108td9651 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Jessica Christine Drescher
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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