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Saoudi, Khadija; Chroqui, Razane; Okar, Chafik – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2020
Despite successive reforms and a high percentage of the national budget devoted to education, Morocco ranks among last in terms of student achievement. This article reviews the definition of student achievement, examines the measures targeting the improvement of student achievement in the last Moroccan educational reforms based on the three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Budgets, Educational Finance
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Turner, Erica O.; Spain, Angeline K. – Urban Education, 2020
How do school district administrators make sense of educational equity as they undertake reform? This study examines tracking policymaking in two urban school districts. Using case studies and an interpretive approach, the study highlights school district leaders' shifting ways of making sense of tracking and (in)equity while facing achievement…
Descriptors: Budgets, Retrenchment, Track System (Education), Gifted
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Kane, Thomas J. – Education Next, 2016
In the half century since James Coleman and his colleagues first documented racial gaps in student achievement, education researchers have done little to help close those gaps. At the dawn of the War on Poverty, it was necessary for Coleman and his colleagues to document and describe the racial gaps in achievement they were intending to address.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Poverty, Educational Research
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Manna, Paul – Peabody Journal of Education, 2012
State governments are crucial actors in the nation's system of education governance. This issue of the "Peabody Journal of Education" underscores the wide-ranging roles that state governments play in the oversight, development, and implementation of elementary and secondary education policy in the United States. In this article, I consider these…
Descriptors: Governance, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy, Government Role
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Orkodashvili, Mariam – Peabody Journal of Education, 2010
This article presents the state education finance and governance profile of West Virginia. West Virginia is the 41st largest state in the United States, with an area of 24,231 square miles. The total population of West Virginia in 2008 was 1,814,468, making it the 37th most populous state in the United States. Current expenditures per pupil are…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Profiles, Demography, Educational Finance
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Yao, Wang – Peabody Journal of Education, 2010
This article presents the state education finance and governance profile of North Carolina. The state has 214 school districts and a total enrollment of 1,461,740 students in 2,513 public elementary and secondary schools. The current expenditures per pupil in 2007-2008 added up to $8,521, equaling 19.8% of the median state household income. As in…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Second Language Learning, Educational Indicators, Achievement Gap