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Dragoset, Lisa; Thomas, Jaime; Herrmann, Mariesa; Deke, John; James-Burdumy, Susanne; Lee Luca, Dara – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program received more than $3 billion with the goal of substantially improving student achievement. The SIG program's funding was to help states turn around the nation's persistently lowest-achieving schools using one of four school intervention…
Descriptors: Grants, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Deke, John; Haimson, Joshua – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2006
This brief summarizes the findings of Mathematica's Valuing Competencies study, which analyzed the effects of students' high school competencies on their postsecondary earnings and educational attainment. The effects of several competency measures, including academic achievement (as captured by test scores) and composite measures of leadership…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Attainment, High Schools, Education Work Relationship