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Direct linkTabatha Jeanette Efaw – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative correlational-predictive study addressed the predictive relationships of County Political Leaning (Republican vs. Democratic/reference) and Poverty of Student Population (operationalized as percentage of students enrolled in Free and Reduced Price Lunch programs) with Out-of-school Suspension in public high schools in California.…
Descriptors: Counties, Political Influences, Poverty, Student Characteristics
Download full textMoss, Tony – Kansas State Department of Education, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to open the methods, construction and assumptions of a new performance benchmark to examination, critique, and improvement by technical experts. The paper begins with known technical questions about this new benchmark. In includes suggestions made by technical advisors. It then details the construction of the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Performance Based Assessment, Benchmarking, State Departments of Education
Levin, Jesse; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Atchison, Drew; Manship, Karen; Arellanes, Melissa; Hu, Lynn – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
This report presents the results of a thorough study conducted by American Institutes for Research (AIR) to investigate the cost of providing an "adequate" education to California students attending public elementary, middle, and high schools. The study addresses the following question: "What is the cost of providing all California…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, State Departments of Education
Peer reviewedHuang, Francis L.; Invernizzi, Marcia A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The authors investigated whether age at kindergarten entry was associated with early literacy achievement gaps and if these gaps persisted over time. Using the kindergarten age eligibility cutoff date, they created 2 groups of students who represented the oldest and youngest children in a cohort of students in high-poverty, low-performing schools.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, School Entrance Age, Academic Achievement
Strand, Steve – Review of Education, 2016
Relatively little research has explored whether schools differ in their effectiveness for different group of pupils (e.g. by ethnicity, poverty or gender), for different curriculum subjects (e.g. English, mathematics or science) or over time (different cohorts). This paper uses multilevel modelling to analyse the national test results at age 7 and…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Children, Elementary School Students
Colorado Children's Campaign, 2014
"Kids Count in Colorado!" is an annual publication of the Colorado Children's Campaign, which provides the best available state- and county-level data to measure and track the education, health and general well-being of the state's children. "Kids Count in Colorado!" informs policy debates and community discussions, serving as…
Descriptors: Child Health, Well Being, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach
Price, David W.; Price, Dorothy Z. – 1982
Estimates were made of the effects of school lunch participation and various socioeconomic, anthropometric, and psychological variables on the consumption of 20 food items by 8- to 12-year-old children. The study sample consisted of 845 school children in the State of Washington, stratified by ethnic group and by poverty level so that it contained…
Descriptors: Blacks, Breakfast Programs, Cultural Influences, Eating Habits
Dunifon, Rachel; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2002
This paper examines the associations between food insecurity, participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), and children's well-being. We address problems of selection by restricting our sample to children in families in which at least one child participates in the NSLP. Results suggest that food insecurity is associated with…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food, Food Service, Well Being
