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Download full textHester, Candace; Lazarev, Valeriy; Zacamy, Jenna; Nardi, Chelsey; Feygin, Amy – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest partnered with the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) to examine Arkansas's middle and high school indicators of postsecondary readiness and success, building on an earlier study of these indicators (Hester et al., 2021). Academic indicators include attaining proficiency on state achievement tests,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Middle School Students, High School Students, Achievement Tests
Argue, Sarah E.; Holland, Greg O. – Arkansas Research Center, 2020
This report demonstrates the effects of the Arkansas Better Chance program (ABC) on late elementary and middle school outcomes. End of year assessments, which varied over the course of the study years, were examined for students of three preschool cohorts. Students included in the statewide study received free lunch all years and were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Preschool Children
Argue, Sarah E.; Holland, Greg O. – Arkansas Research Center, 2019
This report demonstrates the effects of the Arkansas Better Chance program (ABC) on late elementary and middle school outcomes. End of year assessments, which varied over the course of the study years, were examined for students of three preschool cohorts. Students included in the statewide study received free lunch all years and were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Preschool Children
Argue, Sarah E.; Holland, Greg O. – Arkansas Research Center, 2018
This report demonstrates the effects of the Arkansas Better Chance program (ABC) on late elementary and middle school outcomes. End of year assessments, which varied over the course of the study years, were examined for students of three preschool cohorts. Students included in the statewide study received free lunch all years and were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Preschool Children
Dougherty, Chrys – ACT, Inc., 2014
Educators and policymakers have set a goal that all students graduate from high school ready for college and careers. A substantial body of research supports the idea that the path to college and career readiness begins well before middle and high school. In an earlier policy report, ACT examined the percentage of academically far off track…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, At Risk Students, Grade 4
Christina Clark Tuttle; Brian Gill; Philip Gleason; Virginia Knechtel; Ira Nichols-Barrer; Alexandra Resch – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2013
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a rapidly expanding network of public charter schools whose mission is to improve the education of low-income children. As of the 2012-2013 school year, 125 KIPP schools are in operation in 20 different states and the District of Columbia (DC). Ultimately, KIPP's goal is to prepare students to enroll and…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Charter Schools, Middle School Students, Economically Disadvantaged
Stotsky, Sandra; Denny, George; Tschepikow, Nick – Education Working Paper Archive, 2010
Interest in single-sex classes continues to grow in the United States, but there has been little research at the elementary level in this country or elsewhere to help guide educators' decision-making about the overall value of single-sex classes in public schools and the specific value of single-sex classes in public schools for increasing boy's…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Test Results, Elementary Schools, Grade 6
