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The Mean Is Not Enough: Using Quantile Regression to Examine Trends in Asian-White Differences across the Entire Achievement Distribution
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Konstantopoulos, Spyros – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background: In recent years, Asian Americans have been consistently described as a model minority. The high levels of educational achievement and educational attainment are the main determinants for identifying Asian Americans as a model minority. Nonetheless, only a few studies have examined empirically the accomplishments of Asian Americans, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Whites, Asian American Students, Minority Groups
How Large an Effect Can We Expect from School Reforms?
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Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Hedges, Larry V. – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: Determining the effectiveness of reform strategies is a major part of the current and future educational research agenda. Effects of education reforms will be evaluated largely quantitatively, and an important aspect of this work will be judging how well reform strategies work. The rhetoric of contemporary school reform…
Descriptors: Research Design, Policy Formation, Intervention, Educational Research