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Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011
Building on its previous work examining education and the economy, the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance), with generous support from State Farm[R], analyzed the economies of all fifty states and the District of Columbia to determine the economic benefits that states could see by improving high school graduation rates. Using a…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, High School Students, Dropouts, Human Capital
Fryer, Roland G., Jr. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
The racial achievement gap in education is an important social problem to which decades of research have yielded no scalable solutions. Recent evidence from "No Excuses" charter schools--which demonstrates that some combination of school inputs can educate the poorest minority children--offers a guiding light. In the 2010-2011 school…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Social Problems, Human Capital, Charter Schools