Haigen Huang

In this project, the researchers will study school boards' deliberations on spending education funds and whether return-on-investment (ROI) training would change financial deliberations of school boards. The ROI training includes 8 hours of virtual modules that cover basic budgeting processes, managing vendor contracts against ROI, as well as cost and outcomes in budget tradeoffs, etc. The ROI training took place during fall or winter of the 2022-23 school year.

The main objective of this project is to provide a more nuanced understanding of associations between school characteristics, classroom processes, and students' language, academic, executive function, and social skills between prekindergarten and grade 1 (PK-1). The first aim focuses on the associations between school characteristics (i.e., academic performance, strain, and organization of resources) and students' early learning. The second aim explores the degree to which school characteris...

The purpose of this high school follow-up study of this longitudinal sample of students is to assess the nature and extent of COVID-19 related school disruptions and how those effects interact with prior school experiences (including pre-k attendance), various student characteristics, as well as the extent of the school disruptions experienced. Funded since 2009, this is a sample from the only longitudinal randomized control trial of a statewide prekindergarten program, evaluating the effect...

Researchers will assess the efficacy of a California financial aid program to provide additional financial aid to community college students that is intended to encourage full-time enrollment and timely degree completion. Although most community college credential and degree programs require a maximum of two years of coursework, students often take almost twice that long to complete their programs. Moreover, a significant proportion of students who enroll in community college never complete ...