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Download full textBlagg, Kristin – Urban Institute, 2016
Many US education reform efforts focus on student performance in large, urban school districts. The National Assessment of Educational Progress's Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) program provides data on student achievement in these districts, but differences in student characteristics complicate comparisons of district performance. I use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Urban Schools, School Districts, Educational Change
Direct linkLadner, Matthew; Lips, Dan – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
A major debate among education reformers over how best to reduce the achievement gap broke out during the 2008 presidential campaign. Most advocates on both sides backed Barack Obama, but they urged him to pursue different policies. The Education Equality Project (EEP) supported a continuation of accountability and other school-focused reforms.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, School Choice, Demography, Educational Change
Peer reviewedLadner, Matthew; Lips, Dan – Education Next, 2009
A major debate among education reformers over how best to reduce the achievement gap broke out during the 2008 presidential campaign. Most advocates on both sides backed Barack Obama, but they urged him to pursue different policies. The Education Equality Project (EEP) supported a continuation of accountability and other school-focused reforms.…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Programs, School Choice, Academic Achievement
Agodini, Roberto; Uhl, Stacey; Novak, Timothy – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2004
This study examines the factors that influence participation in vocational education among students who attended high school during the early 1990s--that is, when the focus of federal vocational education policy began to change. The factors examined included three types of characteristics of students, their parents, and their high schools: (1)…
Descriptors: High Schools, Vocational Education, Student Participation, Context Effect
