Sarah Cordes

In this project, researchers explored the potential relationship(s) among school busing, student characteristics, and student outcomes. For a large number of students in the U.S., the school day begins and ends with riding the school bus. However, little is known about who rides the bus, the daily bus experience (e.g., commute time, length), the distribution and variation in bus experiences, the size and nature of disparities in experiences across demographic or economic groups, or more gene...

The NYU Predoctoral Training Program in Education Sciences prepared fellows to be researchers with strengths in understanding learning in context, using rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental approaches to causal inference, and taking interdisciplinary perspectives on education and learning.