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Quality Counts 2019: Grading the States. Education Week. Volume 39, Number 3
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Education Week, 2019
Stagnation or promise? The third and final installment of "Quality Counts 2019" offers evidence for both in an annual summing up of the nation's K-12 system. The Education Week Research Center analyzed dozens of factors ranging from the academic to the socioeconomic in coming up with its all-inclusive state rankings and A-F grades. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Educational Quality, Educational Finance
The Relationship between Opportunities to Learn Algebra and Students' Algebra Achievement: A Comparative Study
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Ayieko, Rachel Angela – Global Education Review, 2018
The article provides a report on the comparison of Opportunities to Learn algebra and eighth grade students' algebra achievement in three countries: Botswana, Singapore and the United States. The study used student and teacher data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (2011 and 2015). By using a multilevel regression…
Descriptors: Correlation, Algebra, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education
Equality of Educational Opportunity: Myth or Reality in U.S. Schooling?
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Schmidt, William H.; Cogan, Leland S.; McKnight, Curtis C. – American Educator, 2011
Despite being known as the land of opportunity, the United States is far from equitable when it comes to the mathematics that students have the opportunity to learn. In this article, the authors explore the extent to which students in different schools and districts have an equal opportunity to learn mathematics. Specifically, they discuss…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Grade 8, Educational Opportunities
Content Coverage Differences across Districts/States: A Persisting Challenge for U.S. Education Policy
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Schmidt, William H.; Cogan, Leland S.; Houang, Richard T.; McKnight, Curtis C. – American Journal of Education, 2011
This article utilizes the 1999 TIMSS-R data from U.S. states and districts to explore the consequences of variation in opportunities to learn specific mathematics content. Analyses explore the relationship between classroom mathematics content coverage and student achievement as measured by the TIMSS-R international mathematics scaled score.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Course Content, Correlation
Equality of Educational Opportunity: A Myth or Reality in U.S. Schooling
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Schmidt, William H.; Cogan, Leland S.; Houang, Richard T.; McKnight, Curtis – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2009
To explore whether equality of educational opportunities is a reality in US eighth grade mathematics classrooms, this paper utilizes data from US states and districts that participated in the 1999 TIMSS-R study. Analyses explore the relationship between classroom coverage of specific mathematics content and student achievement as measured by the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Mathematics Education
Felipe's Story: In Response to the National Research Council Report
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Grupp, Laurie L. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2004
The National Research Council (NRC) report on the disproportionate representation of minority students in special and gifted education represents an opportunity to draw national attention to the challenges faced by educators as they attempt to provide high-quality educational opportunities for students from culturally and linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Gifted, Linguistics, Academic Achievement, Disproportionate Representation