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Download full textNational Student Clearinghouse, 2014
This second annual report provides high school-to-college transition rates for graduates of public non-charter, public charter, and private high schools. For students of public non-charter high schools the rates are reported in 12 categories based on the school-level demographic and geographic characteristics. This timely and comprehensive data is…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Private Schools
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Direct linkLipman, Pauline – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2009
In this article, I examine the contested and racially coded cultural politics of creating mixed-income schools in mixed-income communities. Policymakers claim deconcentrating low-income people will reduce poverty and improve education. However, based on activist research in Chicago, I argue these policies are grounded in "culture of…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Housing, Community Change, Urban Schools
Dogan, Enis; de Mello, Victor Bandeira; Lewis, Sharon; Simon, Candace; Uzzell, Renata; Horwitz, Amanda; Casserly, Michael – Council of the Great City Schools, 2011
In this study, the authors examined the academic performance of 18 urban districts that participated in the 2009 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). The districts participated in grade 4 and grade 8 reading and mathematics assessments. Eleven of these districts also participated in the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Public Schools, National Competency Tests
Hayes, Kathleen – National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2009
Teacher shortages are essentially a problem of distribution (Darling-Hammond, 2001; Ingersoll, 2001; National Association of State Boards of Education, 1998; Olson, 2000; Reeves, 2003; Voke, 2002). According to recent studies, hardest to find are teachers who are both qualified and willing to teach in hard-to-staff schools, which included those in…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Qualifications
Gibbons, Michael – 1989
Achievement in reading and mathematics of students at elementary schools participating in the Columbus (Ohio) 1989 School Improvement Program (SIP) has improved for the seventh year in a row, but achievement of low income students remains below that of other students. The goal of SIP, an effective schools project, is to improve the academic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educationally Disadvantaged
Diamond, John B.; Spillane, James P. – 2002
In this paper, the authors use data from interviews and observations in four urban elementary schools, two high and two low performing, to examine how schools respond to high stakes accountability policies. The authors argue that school responses to high stakes accountability depend on school context. In low performing schools, responses focus…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Black Students, Elementary Education
Winfield, Linda F.; Hawkins, Randolph – 1993
This report analyzes the longitudinal effects of schoolwide Chapter 1 initiatives on student reading achievement in 40 elementary schools in a large urban school district. The analyses find that, compared to control students, first-graders in schoolwide projects showed no achievement effects, second-graders showed positive significant effects,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Lewis, Magdalena C. – 1993
The Padres a la escuela (PAE) or Parents in the School program in San Antonio (Texas) encouraged the participation of Hispanic parents in the education of their children. The successes of the PAE program are used in this guidebook to help parents, program staff, and policy makers in similar efforts. This handbook describes the history,…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, NY. – 1983
The New York City Department of Health (CDOH) traditionally has provided health care to the approximately one million students in New York City's public schools, but budget cuts have reduced its services substantially. Both the New York State Department of Health (SDOH) and New York City Board of Education (BOE) have been critical of CDOH's…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Demonstration Programs, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2004
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Alliance Releases Teacher Paper: Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High-Quality New Teachers; (2) A…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Master Teachers, Minority Groups, Public Education
Stevens, Carla J.; And Others – 1991
This paper reports on a study of the Houston (Texas) Independent School District's Lighted Schoolhouse Program, which is designed to serve as an intermediary between homeless children and community service agencies, to provide a range of after-school activities for unattended children, and to provide opportunities for participation of families and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Black Students, Community Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Williams, Michael R. – 1989
This book analyzes how community-based organizations in low income urban neighborhoods can promote reform of their local public schools. Chapter 1, "Reassessing the Declining Urban Neighborhood," discusses the sources of urban decline in terms of a structural relationship between "haves" and "have-nots." Chapter 2,…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Organizations, Case Studies, Community Attitudes
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1989
This report presents information about enrollment trends, student achievement, graduation rates, the teaching force, and school finances for elementary and secondary schools and higher education in New York State for the 1986-87 school year. Most of the data for elementary and secondary schools were drawn from the Basic Educational Data System…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Characteristics, Dropout Rate, Educational Finance
