Gregory R Weiher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory R Weiher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory R |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiher |
| SIGNATURE | WEIHER G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
General Social Capital, Education‐Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools
Proponents of charter schools credit them with many advantages over traditional schools. One claim is that school choice yields increased parental participation in voluntary school activities—which we shall call education‐related social capital. In this article we test for the independent effect of school choice on education‐related social capital, controlling for general social capital and other potentially confounding variables. Studies of scho…
Minority Student Achievement
Hispanic College Attendance and the State of Texas Gear UP Program
This article reports the results of an evaluation of the state of Texas GEAR UP project implemented in six school districts from 1998 to 2005. The intent of the program was to enhance preparation for post-secondary education among low-income, Hispanic students. The program was comprised of practical interventions including vertical curriculum alignment, training teachers in advanced placement techniques, encouraging students to take rigorous cour…
Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Academic Quality as Components of School Choice
A common critique of school choice is that it will have the practical effect of further increasing racial and ethnic segregation in American education. Although most survey evidence indicates that the highest priority of parents in choosing schools is academic quality, with the race and ethnic composition of the student body being much less important, many critics doubt that private preferences are being publicly revealed. In this paper, we use a…
Political Events in a Model of Gubernatorial Approval
Research on the public approval of American governors has focused almost exclusively on the impact of economic conditions on fluctuations in such approval. This article adds events variables to a model of gubernatorial public approval including the more commonly used economic variables, and tests this model in a time-series analysis in three states. The results suggest that the effect of political events is minimal and mixed. Furthermore, the ana…
Does choice lead to racially distinctive schools? Charter schools and household preferences
A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to non‐choosing households, but few have examined the possibility that choosers sort themselves out based upon school preferences that are correlated with race and ethnicity. This report addresses this issue by analyzing the responses of 1,006 charter school households in Texas. It first exa…
Age, Race, Self-Interest, and Financing Public Schools through Referenda
Using a sample of 628 white, black, and Hispanic voters in a large urban school district, we test a series of hypotheses about voting in a school bond election. We find that there is a core of similar results across racial/ethnic groups. All three groups show strong, directly measured, self-interest effects. We also find some distinct group differences. Symbolic values played a limited role for white voters, but a stronger role for minorities. In…
Minority Student Achievement: Passive Representation and Social Context in Schools
Previous research indicates that the academic performance of minority students improves when school faculties include minority teachers. This research addresses this issue using data from some 540 school districts and 668 campuses in Texas. It finds that the greater the shortfall between the district/campus percentage of minority teachers and the district/campus percentage of minority students, the lower the percentage of district/campus minority…
Gubernatorial popularity in three states: A preliminary model
This article develops and tests a model of gubernatorial popularity. Using data from three state polls in California, Iowa and Minnesota, we examine the relative importance of state-level and national-level political and economic developments for approval ratings of governors in these states. We also investigate the degree to which governors are held accountable for the performance of their party when it controls the White House. We demonstrate t…
The Fractured Metropolis: Political Fragmentation and Metropolitan Segregation
Rural Poverty: Special Causes and Policy Reforms
Introduction Rural and Urban Poverty: An Income/Net Worth Approach Rural-Urban Differences in the Utilization and Ameliorative Effects of Welfare Programs Labor Force Participation and Poverty Status among Rural and Urban Women Who Head Families Impacts of the Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s on Resources and Poverty in Agriculturally Dependent Counties in the United States Rural Poverty, Welfare Eligibility, Farm Programs, and the Negative Inc…
Growth in State Government Employment: A Time Series Analysis
Rumors of the Demise of the Urban Crisis Are Greatly Exaggerated
This article examines a growing body of literature that claims or implies the urban crisis is over. This literature presents several recurrent themes: that the urban crisis is past because cities have put their fiscal affairs in order; that urban problems should be understood as the product of a hiatus between a waning industrial economy and an emergent service and high technology economy; and that there is a growing back-to-the-city movement. In…
Public Policy and Patterns of Residential Segregation
LACK geographic segregation is, at least in part, a manifestation of a continuing aversion to blacks on the part of whites (Bobo, Schuman, and Steeh 1986). The measurement of segregation is problematic owing to the many facets of the concept (Stearns and Logan 1986). Nevertheless, most studies conclude that segregation, however it may be measured, has not decreased notably in metropolitan areas (for instance, Massey and Denton 1987). The persiste…
Rural Versus Urban Poverty: An Introduction
The Rural Poor in America. A Statistical Overview
Does choice lead to racially distinctive schools? Charter schools and household preferences
A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to non‐choosing households, but few have examined the possibility that choosers sort themselves out based upon school preferences that are correlated with race and ethnicity. This report addresses this issue by analyzing the responses of 1,006 charter school households in Texas. It first exa…
Age, Race, Self-Interest, and Financing Public Schools through Referenda
Using a sample of 628 white, black, and Hispanic voters in a large urban school district, we test a series of hypotheses about voting in a school bond election. We find that there is a core of similar results across racial/ethnic groups. All three groups show strong, directly measured, self-interest effects. We also find some distinct group differences. Symbolic values played a limited role for white voters, but a stronger role for minorities. In…
Minority Student Achievement: Passive Representation and Social Context in Schools
Previous research indicates that the academic performance of minority students improves when school faculties include minority teachers. This research addresses this issue using data from some 540 school districts and 668 campuses in Texas. It finds that the greater the shortfall between the district/campus percentage of minority teachers and the district/campus percentage of minority students, the lower the percentage of district/campus minority…
Gubernatorial popularity in three states: A preliminary model
This article develops and tests a model of gubernatorial popularity. Using data from three state polls in California, Iowa and Minnesota, we examine the relative importance of state-level and national-level political and economic developments for approval ratings of governors in these states. We also investigate the degree to which governors are held accountable for the performance of their party when it controls the White House. We demonstrate t…
Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Academic Quality as Components of School Choice
A common critique of school choice is that it will have the practical effect of further increasing racial and ethnic segregation in American education. Although most survey evidence indicates that the highest priority of parents in choosing schools is academic quality, with the race and ethnic composition of the student body being much less important, many critics doubt that private preferences are being publicly revealed. In this paper, we use a…
Political Events in a Model of Gubernatorial Approval
Research on the public approval of American governors has focused almost exclusively on the impact of economic conditions on fluctuations in such approval. This article adds events variables to a model of gubernatorial public approval including the more commonly used economic variables, and tests this model in a time-series analysis in three states. The results suggest that the effect of political events is minimal and mixed. Furthermore, the ana…
General Social Capital, Education‐Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools
Proponents of charter schools credit them with many advantages over traditional schools. One claim is that school choice yields increased parental participation in voluntary school activities—which we shall call education‐related social capital. In this article we test for the independent effect of school choice on education‐related social capital, controlling for general social capital and other potentially confounding variables. Studies of scho…
The Rural Poor in America. A Statistical Overview
Rumors of the Demise of the Urban Crisis Are Greatly Exaggerated
This article examines a growing body of literature that claims or implies the urban crisis is over. This literature presents several recurrent themes: that the urban crisis is past because cities have put their fiscal affairs in order; that urban problems should be understood as the product of a hiatus between a waning industrial economy and an emergent service and high technology economy; and that there is a growing back-to-the-city movement. In…
Growth in State Government Employment: A Time Series Analysis
Hispanic College Attendance and the State of Texas Gear UP Program
This article reports the results of an evaluation of the state of Texas GEAR UP project implemented in six school districts from 1998 to 2005. The intent of the program was to enhance preparation for post-secondary education among low-income, Hispanic students. The program was comprised of practical interventions including vertical curriculum alignment, training teachers in advanced placement techniques, encouraging students to take rigorous cour…
Public Policy and Patterns of Residential Segregation
LACK geographic segregation is, at least in part, a manifestation of a continuing aversion to blacks on the part of whites (Bobo, Schuman, and Steeh 1986). The measurement of segregation is problematic owing to the many facets of the concept (Stearns and Logan 1986). Nevertheless, most studies conclude that segregation, however it may be measured, has not decreased notably in metropolitan areas (for instance, Massey and Denton 1987). The persiste…
The Rural Poor in America. A Statistical Overview
Rural Versus Urban Poverty: An Introduction
Rumors of the Demise of the Urban Crisis Are Greatly Exaggerated
This article examines a growing body of literature that claims or implies the urban crisis is over. This literature presents several recurrent themes: that the urban crisis is past because cities have put their fiscal affairs in order; that urban problems should be understood as the product of a hiatus between a waning industrial economy and an emergent service and high technology economy; and that there is a growing back-to-the-city movement. In…
Public Policy and Patterns of Residential Segregation
LACK geographic segregation is, at least in part, a manifestation of a continuing aversion to blacks on the part of whites (Bobo, Schuman, and Steeh 1986). The measurement of segregation is problematic owing to the many facets of the concept (Stearns and Logan 1986). Nevertheless, most studies conclude that segregation, however it may be measured, has not decreased notably in metropolitan areas (for instance, Massey and Denton 1987). The persiste…
Rural Poverty: Special Causes and Policy Reforms
Introduction Rural and Urban Poverty: An Income/Net Worth Approach Rural-Urban Differences in the Utilization and Ameliorative Effects of Welfare Programs Labor Force Participation and Poverty Status among Rural and Urban Women Who Head Families Impacts of the Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s on Resources and Poverty in Agriculturally Dependent Counties in the United States Rural Poverty, Welfare Eligibility, Farm Programs, and the Negative Inc…
Growth in State Government Employment: A Time Series Analysis
The Fractured Metropolis: Political Fragmentation and Metropolitan Segregation
Gubernatorial popularity in three states: A preliminary model
This article develops and tests a model of gubernatorial popularity. Using data from three state polls in California, Iowa and Minnesota, we examine the relative importance of state-level and national-level political and economic developments for approval ratings of governors in these states. We also investigate the degree to which governors are held accountable for the performance of their party when it controls the White House. We demonstrate t…
Minority Student Achievement: Passive Representation and Social Context in Schools
Previous research indicates that the academic performance of minority students improves when school faculties include minority teachers. This research addresses this issue using data from some 540 school districts and 668 campuses in Texas. It finds that the greater the shortfall between the district/campus percentage of minority teachers and the district/campus percentage of minority students, the lower the percentage of district/campus minority…
Does choice lead to racially distinctive schools? Charter schools and household preferences
A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to non‐choosing households, but few have examined the possibility that choosers sort themselves out based upon school preferences that are correlated with race and ethnicity. This report addresses this issue by analyzing the responses of 1,006 charter school households in Texas. It first exa…
Age, Race, Self-Interest, and Financing Public Schools through Referenda
Using a sample of 628 white, black, and Hispanic voters in a large urban school district, we test a series of hypotheses about voting in a school bond election. We find that there is a core of similar results across racial/ethnic groups. All three groups show strong, directly measured, self-interest effects. We also find some distinct group differences. Symbolic values played a limited role for white voters, but a stronger role for minorities. In…
Political Events in a Model of Gubernatorial Approval
Research on the public approval of American governors has focused almost exclusively on the impact of economic conditions on fluctuations in such approval. This article adds events variables to a model of gubernatorial public approval including the more commonly used economic variables, and tests this model in a time-series analysis in three states. The results suggest that the effect of political events is minimal and mixed. Furthermore, the ana…
Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Academic Quality as Components of School Choice
A common critique of school choice is that it will have the practical effect of further increasing racial and ethnic segregation in American education. Although most survey evidence indicates that the highest priority of parents in choosing schools is academic quality, with the race and ethnic composition of the student body being much less important, many critics doubt that private preferences are being publicly revealed. In this paper, we use a…
Minority Student Achievement
Hispanic College Attendance and the State of Texas Gear UP Program
This article reports the results of an evaluation of the state of Texas GEAR UP project implemented in six school districts from 1998 to 2005. The intent of the program was to enhance preparation for post-secondary education among low-income, Hispanic students. The program was comprised of practical interventions including vertical curriculum alignment, training teachers in advanced placement techniques, encouraging students to take rigorous cour…
General Social Capital, Education‐Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools
Proponents of charter schools credit them with many advantages over traditional schools. One claim is that school choice yields increased parental participation in voluntary school activities—which we shall call education‐related social capital. In this article we test for the independent effect of school choice on education‐related social capital, controlling for general social capital and other potentially confounding variables. Studies of scho…
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