Examines the impact of ability grouping practices on the achievement gains among African Americans and Hispanics during elementary school.
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ClearSchool Effects: Examining the Race Gap in Mathematics Achievement
Relationship between school racial composition and the race-based gaps in mathematics achievement.
Differences in Scholastic Achievement of Public, Private Government-Dependent, and Private Independent Schools: A Cross-National Analysis
Explain the gross differences in scholastic achievement of Public, Private Government-Dependent, and Private Independent Schools.
Friendship Networks and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Academic Outcomes
What is the effect of racial and achievement composition on two peer group characteristics both at the school and at friendship network levels?
Race, Racial Concentration, and the Dynamics of Educational Inequality Across Urban and Suburban Schools
How does the process of educational performance and attainment differ across the 2 types of American schools (low and high minority schools)?
Teacher Effectiveness in the First Grade: The Importance of Background Qualifications, Attitudes, and Instructional Practices for Student Learning
What proportion of the variation in student achievement gains can be attributed to each of the general sources: individual differences in student background, classroom effects, and school effects? To what degree do differences in teacher effectiveness affect student achievement gains? What is the relative size of the effects of student background qualifications, attitudes and instructional practices on student achievement gains in first grade?
Estimating the Influence of School Racial and Socioeconomic Composition on Student Learning: Methodological Challenges and Alternative Solutions
How school racial and SES composition influence young children’s academic development above and beyond the characteristics of students themselves?
The Continuing Relationship Between Racial and Socioeconomic Composition and Achievement in North Carolina Schools
Effects of school characteristics on NC students’ reading and math achievement from 4th through 8th grade.
School Structural Characteristics, Student Effort, Peer Associations, and Parental Involvement: The Influence of School- and Individual-Level Factors on Academic Achievement
Examines the extent to which individual-level and school structural variables are predictors of academic achievement among a sample of 10th grade students abstracted from the National Educational Longitudinal Study database.
More Than One Gap: Dropout Rate Gaps Between and Among Black, Hispanic, and White Students
Examine variables associated with dropout behavior as a measure of achievement gaps.
Does the Ethnic Composition of Upper Secondary Schools Influence Educational Achievement and Attainment? A Multilevel Analysis of the Norwegian Case
The contextual effects of ethnic minorities in schools on the educational outcome of the students attending these schools.
Texas Students' College Expectations: Does High School Racial Composition Matter?
The association between the racial composition of schools and Texas high school students’ educational expectations.
Measuring School Racial Composition and Student Outcomes in a Multiracial Society
What are the benefits of school desegregation and diversity measured by a nonacademic outcome with social implications (comfort working).
The Effects of School Racial and Ethnic Composition on Academic Achievement During Adolescence
The effects of school racial and ethnic composition on students’ academic achievement in the U.S..
Can Reducing School Segregation Close the Achievement Gap?
How do racially diverse schools affect student achievement?
The Race Gap in High School Reading Achievement: Why School Racial Composition Still Matters
How is school racial composition related to reading achievement?
The Educational Benefit of Sustaining Cross-Racial Interaction Among Undergraduates
Examine the student -and institution- level effects of one key form of diversity – cross-racial interaction.
Separate But Not Yet Equal: The Relation Between School Finance Adequacy Litigation and African American Student Achievement
Extent to which adequacy litigations functions as a means of narrowing the achievement gap.
Full-Day Versus Half-Day Kindergarten: In Which Program Do Children Learn More?
- Do young children who attend public schools that offer full-day kindergarten programs learn more over the school year, in terms of achievement in the domains of literacy and mathematics, than their counterparts who attend schools with half-day programs?
- Are the learning benefits associated with enrollment in public schools offering full-day or half-day kindergarten different for schools of varying academic composition or in schools with different social compositions?
Segregation and the SAT
Analyzes how organizational features of school racial composition and tracks influence student’s opportunities to learn material covered on the SAT.
How Middle School Segregation Contributes to the Race Gap in Academic Achievement
Studies the effects of school racial composition on the academic outcomes of middle school students
Disentangling the Racial Test Score Gap: Probing the Evidence in a Large Urban School District
They examine the distribution of the gap in test scores across races within New York City public schools and the factors that explain these group.
Ethnic and Socioeconomic Class Composition and Language Proficiency: A Longitudinal Multilevel Examination in Dutch Elementary Schools
Ascertains the impact of ethnic and socioeconomic composition of pupils’ school classes on language proficiency.
Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial-Ethnic Groups, 1972-1992
Empirically examine several family-and school-based explanations for black-white and Latino-white test score differences over the past 20 years.
Effects of School Segregation and School Resources in a Changing Policy Context
Impact of school composition and school resources on student achievement growth.
Does Segregation Still Matter? The Impact of Student Composition on Academic Achievement in High School
Whether racial and socioeconomic segregation is still contributing to the achievement differences among students.
Test Scores, Dropout Rates, and Transfer Rates as Alternative Indicators of High School Performance
Looks at whether schools that are effective in raising test scores are also effective in reducing dropout and transfer rates, and focuses on which school characteristics predict these alternative indicators of performance.
Effects of Racial Diversity on Complex Thinking in College Students
Measure the impact of racial diversity on the complexity of thinking in college students.
The Race Gap in Student Achievement Scores: Longitudinal Evidence from a Racially Diverse School District
Examine when and how the Black-White and Hispanic-White test score gaps develop in the early elementary grades in a California school district.
Bridging Methodological Gaps: Instructional and Institutional Effects of Tracking in Two English Classes
Analyzes instructional and institutional effects of tracking in high and low track English classes
Inequality Segregation and the Overrepresentation of African American in School Suspensions
Relationship between school segregation patterns and the phenomenon of Black suspension overrepresentation.
Schools' Racial Mix, Students' Optimism, and the Black-White and Latino-White Achievement Gaps
How schools’ racial and ethnic mix of students and teachers influences black, white, and Latino students’ expectations, aspirations and attitudes.
Race, Social Class, and Academic Achievement in US High Schools
Looks at segregation within school,according to race,in core academic courses on student’s academic achievement & the race gap in each at the end of HS
Race and Academic Achievement in Racially Diverse High Schools: Opportunity and Stratification
Assess whether racially diverse high schools offer equal education and opportunities to students of different racial/ethnic groups
The Schooling of Children of Immigrants: Contextual Effects on the Educational Attainment of the Second Generation
Examine the effect of the class & ethnic composition of the schools that second-generation youths attend in early adolescence on attainment & drop-out
School Racial Composition and Student Educational Aspirations: A Question of Equity in a Multiracial Society
Are levels of school support associated with student aspirations? If associated is it constant across schools with different racial/ethnic compositions?
Closing the Black-White Achievement Gap: Instructional Strategies in Title I Schools
Studies the connection between student achievement in reading & the Black-White achievement gap, emphasizing different instructional strategies.
The Effect of Schools and Classes on Language Achievement
The effect of schools and classes upon literacy in the second grade of secondary education.