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Papers by Deinya Phenix
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015
... In a local critique, Domanico argued that, despite reform efforts that include tougher standa... more ... In a local critique, Domanico argued that, despite reform efforts that include tougher standards and new management, the size of the New York City school system itself thwarts change because there is little that a centralized New York City Board of Education can do to repair ...
Using the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a cohort of 411 boys followed from age 8-10 ... more Using the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a cohort of 411 boys followed from age 8-10 to age 50, I conduct an analysis using an alternative method to obtain estimates of trajectories and analyze the whole distribution of these trajectories. This alternative consists of a ...
Institute for Education and Social Policy …, Jan 1, 2004
Design: Sarah Sills virtual district, real improvement 3 Across the seven years of the operation ... more Design: Sarah Sills virtual district, real improvement 3 Across the seven years of the operation of the Chancellor's District, ten high schools were also included. We do not examine the high schools in this analysis for two reasons. First, under decentralization, high schools remained under the authority of the citywide central administration, so those failing high schools placed in the Chancellor's District were not removed from local jurisdictions as elementary and middle schools were. Second, high schools placed in the Chancellor's District were subjected to a different intervention than the elementary and middle schools.
education policy analysis …, Jan 1, 2005
Education and Urban Society, Jan 1, 2007
Despite nationwide decreases in school crime and violence, a relatively high and increasing numbe... more Despite nationwide decreases in school crime and violence, a relatively high and increasing number of students report feeling unsafe at school. In response, some school officials are implementing school-police partnerships, especially in urban areas, as an effort to deter criminal activity and violence in schools. This article examines the initial effect of New York City's Impact Schools Initiative, a punitive-based school-police partnership developed in January 2004 that increases police presence at some of the city's most dangerous public schools. An initial examination of school-level demographic and environmental variables reveals that, despite increased police presence, students enrolled at New York City's impact schools continue to experience higher than average problems linked directly to future criminality, including more student suspensions and lower attendance rates than other New York City Schools. The data also reveal that relative to other New York City public schools, impact schools are more crowded and receive less funding.
Learning Environments, Jan 1, 2008
To a leading superintendent, an effective learning environment requires support from community pa... more To a leading superintendent, an effective learning environment requires support from community partners and the district central office.
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Institute for Education and …, Jan 1, 2004
Design: Sarah Sills virtual district, real improvement 3 Across the seven years of the operation ... more Design: Sarah Sills virtual district, real improvement 3 Across the seven years of the operation of the Chancellor's District, ten high schools were also included. We do not examine the high schools in this analysis for two reasons. First, under decentralization, high schools remained under the authority of the citywide central administration, so those failing high schools placed in the Chancellor's District were not removed from local jurisdictions as elementary and middle schools were. Second, high schools placed in the Chancellor's District were subjected to a different intervention than the elementary and middle schools.
Education Policy Analysis …, Jan 1, 2005
Education and Urban Society, Jan 1, 2007
Despite nationwide decreases in school crime and violence, a relatively high and increasing numbe... more Despite nationwide decreases in school crime and violence, a relatively high and increasing number of students report feeling unsafe at school. In response, some school officials are implementing school-police partnerships, especially in urban areas, as an effort to deter criminal activity and violence in schools. This article examines the initial effect of New York City's Impact Schools Initiative, a punitive-based school-police partnership developed in January 2004 that increases police presence at some of the city's most dangerous public schools. An initial examination of school-level demographic and environmental variables reveals that, despite increased police presence, students enrolled at New York City's impact schools continue to experience higher than average problems linked directly to future criminality, including more student suspensions and lower attendance rates than other New York City Schools. The data also reveal that relative to other New York City public schools, impact schools are more crowded and receive less funding.
steinhardt.nyu.edu
Spatially structured variation between schools has important implications for administrative poli... more Spatially structured variation between schools has important implications for administrative policy and reform. Recent policy initiatives at both national and local levels seek to ensure that children have access to sufficiently well-functioning schools, regardless of where they live. The advent of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has enabled analysts and policy makers to identify potential "hot spots" -geographically contiguous areas of poor school performance -particularly in large urban school systems. This may coincide with district effects, but we often discover patterns within a local district and across district boundaries. We combine approaches of spatial data analysis with multi-level modeling to formally assess both global and local spatially-driven variation. Covariate effects are introduced and spatial structure is reassessed under these controls.
… Conference. San Diego, CA. Retrieved from http …, Jan 1, 2009
This paper discusses geographically structured disparity between schools, particularly schools wi... more This paper discusses geographically structured disparity between schools, particularly schools within the same administrative district. I describe how a school's academic quality is, to some extent, associated with geographic location. The distribution of New York City school-level performance on test results mirrors the distribution of socioeconomic background of students and neighborhood residents, but it also corresponds to the uneven distribution of school-level resources, such as teacher quality. What these inequities also reflect is a spatially structured institutional terrain, influenced by political power struggles and municipal and district policies, as well as the urban teacher labor market. This paper reviews, as background, New York City's decentralized administrative structure, and discusses spatial and social factors in districting and the creation and maintenance of low performing schools. New York's recent restructuring, merging districts into larger "Instructional Regions" and then nongeographic "Networks of Schools," has implications for shifting some of the structured disparity between schools, particularly schools in the neglected parts of some districts. How may the manipulation of boundaries affect the under-resourced, underachieving schools, given long periods of neglect? The results of the analysis presented here suggest the persistence of spatially structured inequity and the need for added measures in the new system to bring schools beyond the cumulative influence of local politics.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015
... In a local critique, Domanico argued that, despite reform efforts that include tougher standa... more ... In a local critique, Domanico argued that, despite reform efforts that include tougher standards and new management, the size of the New York City school system itself thwarts change because there is little that a centralized New York City Board of Education can do to repair ...
Using the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a cohort of 411 boys followed from age 8-10 ... more Using the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a cohort of 411 boys followed from age 8-10 to age 50, I conduct an analysis using an alternative method to obtain estimates of trajectories and analyze the whole distribution of these trajectories. This alternative consists of a ...
Institute for Education and Social Policy …, Jan 1, 2004
Design: Sarah Sills virtual district, real improvement 3 Across the seven years of the operation ... more Design: Sarah Sills virtual district, real improvement 3 Across the seven years of the operation of the Chancellor's District, ten high schools were also included. We do not examine the high schools in this analysis for two reasons. First, under decentralization, high schools remained under the authority of the citywide central administration, so those failing high schools placed in the Chancellor's District were not removed from local jurisdictions as elementary and middle schools were. Second, high schools placed in the Chancellor's District were subjected to a different intervention than the elementary and middle schools.
education policy analysis …, Jan 1, 2005
Education and Urban Society, Jan 1, 2007
Despite nationwide decreases in school crime and violence, a relatively high and increasing numbe... more Despite nationwide decreases in school crime and violence, a relatively high and increasing number of students report feeling unsafe at school. In response, some school officials are implementing school-police partnerships, especially in urban areas, as an effort to deter criminal activity and violence in schools. This article examines the initial effect of New York City's Impact Schools Initiative, a punitive-based school-police partnership developed in January 2004 that increases police presence at some of the city's most dangerous public schools. An initial examination of school-level demographic and environmental variables reveals that, despite increased police presence, students enrolled at New York City's impact schools continue to experience higher than average problems linked directly to future criminality, including more student suspensions and lower attendance rates than other New York City Schools. The data also reveal that relative to other New York City public schools, impact schools are more crowded and receive less funding.
Learning Environments, Jan 1, 2008
To a leading superintendent, an effective learning environment requires support from community pa... more To a leading superintendent, an effective learning environment requires support from community partners and the district central office.
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Institute for Education and …, Jan 1, 2004
Design: Sarah Sills virtual district, real improvement 3 Across the seven years of the operation ... more Design: Sarah Sills virtual district, real improvement 3 Across the seven years of the operation of the Chancellor's District, ten high schools were also included. We do not examine the high schools in this analysis for two reasons. First, under decentralization, high schools remained under the authority of the citywide central administration, so those failing high schools placed in the Chancellor's District were not removed from local jurisdictions as elementary and middle schools were. Second, high schools placed in the Chancellor's District were subjected to a different intervention than the elementary and middle schools.
Education Policy Analysis …, Jan 1, 2005
Education and Urban Society, Jan 1, 2007
Despite nationwide decreases in school crime and violence, a relatively high and increasing numbe... more Despite nationwide decreases in school crime and violence, a relatively high and increasing number of students report feeling unsafe at school. In response, some school officials are implementing school-police partnerships, especially in urban areas, as an effort to deter criminal activity and violence in schools. This article examines the initial effect of New York City's Impact Schools Initiative, a punitive-based school-police partnership developed in January 2004 that increases police presence at some of the city's most dangerous public schools. An initial examination of school-level demographic and environmental variables reveals that, despite increased police presence, students enrolled at New York City's impact schools continue to experience higher than average problems linked directly to future criminality, including more student suspensions and lower attendance rates than other New York City Schools. The data also reveal that relative to other New York City public schools, impact schools are more crowded and receive less funding.
steinhardt.nyu.edu
Spatially structured variation between schools has important implications for administrative poli... more Spatially structured variation between schools has important implications for administrative policy and reform. Recent policy initiatives at both national and local levels seek to ensure that children have access to sufficiently well-functioning schools, regardless of where they live. The advent of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has enabled analysts and policy makers to identify potential "hot spots" -geographically contiguous areas of poor school performance -particularly in large urban school systems. This may coincide with district effects, but we often discover patterns within a local district and across district boundaries. We combine approaches of spatial data analysis with multi-level modeling to formally assess both global and local spatially-driven variation. Covariate effects are introduced and spatial structure is reassessed under these controls.
… Conference. San Diego, CA. Retrieved from http …, Jan 1, 2009
This paper discusses geographically structured disparity between schools, particularly schools wi... more This paper discusses geographically structured disparity between schools, particularly schools within the same administrative district. I describe how a school's academic quality is, to some extent, associated with geographic location. The distribution of New York City school-level performance on test results mirrors the distribution of socioeconomic background of students and neighborhood residents, but it also corresponds to the uneven distribution of school-level resources, such as teacher quality. What these inequities also reflect is a spatially structured institutional terrain, influenced by political power struggles and municipal and district policies, as well as the urban teacher labor market. This paper reviews, as background, New York City's decentralized administrative structure, and discusses spatial and social factors in districting and the creation and maintenance of low performing schools. New York's recent restructuring, merging districts into larger "Instructional Regions" and then nongeographic "Networks of Schools," has implications for shifting some of the structured disparity between schools, particularly schools in the neglected parts of some districts. How may the manipulation of boundaries affect the under-resourced, underachieving schools, given long periods of neglect? The results of the analysis presented here suggest the persistence of spatially structured inequity and the need for added measures in the new system to bring schools beyond the cumulative influence of local politics.