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Chrystal S. Johnson; Chenchen Lu; Godwin Gyimah; Razak Kwame Dwomoh – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
The proposed paper utilizes teacher and student data from the 2014 U.S. National Assessment for Education Progress 8th grade Civics test (NAEP-Civics8) to explore the relationship between teacher pedagogical practices and other factors (i.e., teacher credentials, teacher professional characteristics, individual traits, and teachers' education…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Grade 8, Civics, Educational Practices
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Patrick J. Wolf; Jay P. Greene; James D. Paul; Matthew Ladner – Journal of School Choice, 2024
School choice is spreading across the U.S. at the same time that scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) are stagnant. We examine the association between education freedom and 8th grade student NAEP score levels and gains in states in 2019. We construct the 2019 Education Freedom Index as a composite measure of the…
Descriptors: School Choice, National Competency Tests, Academic Achievement, Private Schools
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Alvaro Hofflinger; Cristóbal Villalobos; Loreto Cárdenas; Ernesto Treviño – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
A common criticisms of school choice programs is that, instead of improving student achievement, they would increase school segregation. Parents may use different criteria to choose a school, such as proximity, school quality, or the school's ethnic/racial composition. As a result, the system would be segregated based on the parent's preferences.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, School Choice, Ethnic Groups