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Download full textMathis, William J.; Trujillo, Tina M. – National Education Policy Center, 2016
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaced the No Child Left Behind Act with great fanfare and enthusiasm. Granting more power to states and curbing what was seen as federal overreach was well received. However, the new legislation maintains a predominately test-based accountability system with a federal mandate for interventions in well over…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Intervention
Direct linkCheng, Shou Chen; Gorard, Stephen – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
This research note shows that secondary school segregation by poverty in England has recently started declining again. By comparing the long-term pattern of school compositions with an economic indicator, it is possible to link this decline to the recession, but only if a further, and contentious, assumption is made about what happened in the…
Descriptors: Poverty, School Segregation, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools
Peer reviewedGorard, Stephen – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2000
Focuses on two general groups of methods that can be used to calculate achievement gaps between groups of students. States that the methods produce radically different results. Considers both of these methods and related problems in the calculation of achievement gaps in solving the contradiction between the two methods. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSo, Alvin Y. – Journal of Black Studies, 1992
Using data from the High School and Beyond survey, describes similarities and differences between African-American and white schools with regard to ethnic segregation, facilities, teacher quality, curriculum, school discipline, and educational achievement. An African-American school is defined as a high school with 70 percent or more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Institutions, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
John, Walton C., Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
For more than a quarter of a century the United States has witnessed a period remarkable in the variety and the extent of its scientific achievements. This is all the more apparent if individuals compare developments in the fields of agriculture, engineering, and their allied sciences and industries with those of the preceding period. Likewise a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Role, Educational Objectives, Educational History
Blose, David T.; Alves, Henry F. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This bulletin presents statistics of state school systems in 1937-38. For the most part statistics presented in this chapter relate to public elementary and secondary schools in 48 States, the District of Columbia, and the outlying parts of the United States. Such data were submitted by States for nonpublic schools are incorporated in separate…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Statistics, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys
