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Jenny L. Sullivan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Previous studies on advanced middle and high school mathematics course enrollment have focused on the correlation of successful course completion and post-secondary outcomes for students. This instrumental case study examined how school related factors such as personnel and policy influenced equitable enrollment in middle and high school honors…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Enrollment Trends, Middle School Students
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Levinson, Meira – Theory and Research in Education, 2015
How can access to public elementary schools of variable quality be justly distributed within a school district? Two reasonable criteria are: (a) that children should have equal opportunity to attend high-quality schools, and (b) school assignment policies should foster an overall increase in the number of high-quality schools. This article…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Access to Education, Ethics, School Policy
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Papay, John P.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
In the past thirty years educational attainments in the United States have stagnated, particularly for low-income Americans. As a result, income-related gaps in educational attainments have grown. These gaps are important because education has historically been the key mechanism for intergenerational socio-economic mobility in the U.S. While the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Equal Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Socioeconomic Influences