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Kirsten Alyssa Knowles – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study investigated the role of K-12 education in breaking the cycle of poverty in the Southeastern Public School District, focusing on the relationship between school-level poverty and key student outcomes: (a) graduation rates, (b) job placement, and (c) college acceptance. This study assessed the timing of federal-, state-,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Poverty, Outcomes of Education, Graduation Rate
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Seifert, Sophia; Porter, Lorna; Cordes, Sarah A.; Wohlstetter, Priscilla – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background: In the United States, students' experiences are shaped by racioethnic, socioeconomic, and linguistic segregation. School choice, and especially charter schools, generally exacerbate existing levels of school segregation. Counter to this trend, hundreds of intentionally diverse charter schools (IDCS), with a mission to promote school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Teacher Attitudes, Institutional Mission
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This report provides a detailed portrait of Hispanic and White academic achievement gaps and how students' performance has changed over time at both the national and state levels. The report presents achievement gaps using reading and mathematics assessment data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for the 4th- and 8th-grade…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Hispanic American Students, White Students, Academic Achievement
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This report presents results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics at grades 4 and 8. Nationally representative samples of 209,000 fourth-graders and 175,200 eighth-graders participated in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics. At each grade, students responded to…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Data Analysis, Grade 4, Probability
Henken, Rob; Dickman, Anneliese; Schmidt, Jeff; Kramer, Renee – Public Policy Forum, 2009
This is the 12th annual report on conditions affecting the Racine Unified School District (RUSD). This year, the analysis again focuses on the long-term historical trends in RUSD. The analysis compares RUSD data to data of nine peer school districts as well as statewide data. The peer districts are defined as those Wisconsin districts with…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement, School Districts