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Dougherty, Chrys; Shaw, Teresa – ACT, Inc., 2016
This report looks at student achievement levels in Arkansas school districts disaggregated by district poverty and by the district's performance relative to other districts. We estimated district performance statistics by subject and grade level (4, 8, and 11-12) for longitudinal student cohorts, using statistical models that adjusted for district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Districts, Poverty, Grade 4
Center on Education Policy, 2010
In grade 8 (the only grade in which subgroup trends were analyzed by achievement level), Arkansas showed across-the-board gains--improvements in reading and math at the basic, proficient and advanced levels for all racial/ethnic subgroups, low income students, and boys and girls. The gains were quite large in most instances, especially at the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Achievement Gains, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement