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Garcia, Ivonne; Grossman, Jean Baldwin; Herrera, Carla; Linden, Leign L. – MDRC, 2020
Too many talented students who go to under-resourced schools do not achieve their full potential. Though they may perform very well relative to their classmates, these students do not receive the same kinds of academically challenging opportunities throughout their educational journey as do their counterparts in better-resourced public and private…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Program Effectiveness, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Hochbein, Craig – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
The purpose of this study is to determine the validity of common assumptions about the rate at which school decline manifests. From a population of 981 elementary schools in the state of Virginia, the author uses three operational definitions of school decline to identify samples of declining schools: Absolute (n = 217), Relational (n = 510), and…
Descriptors: Definitions, Low Achievement, Educational Quality, Elementary Schools