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Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School. A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects

Examining the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement in high schools, especially in the core courses taken early in a student’s high school career.

The Ecology of Early Reading Development for Children in Poverty

Investigated reading development from kindergarten to third grade for economically disadvantaged children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort.

Does Gender Composition of the Classroom Matter? A Comparison of Students' Academic and Social Outcomes in Single-Gender and Coed High School Classrooms

How gender composition affects students’ academic and socio-emotional outcomes?

African-American Students' College Transition Trajectory: An Examination of the Effect of High School Composition and Expectations on Degree Attainment

What is the relationship between highschool composition and students’ degree expectations and their effect on degree attainment for African-Americans?

The Race Gap in High School Reading Achievement: Why School Racial Composition Still Matters

How is school racial composition related to reading achievement?

Connecting Pieces of the Puzzle: Gender Differences in Black Middle School Students' Achievement

Explores the sources of variation in Black adolescent students’ academic achievement during Middle School.

Understanding Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gaps During the First Years of School

Examine results of Fryer and Levitt (2004 & 2005) about patterns in the relative academic achievement of young black and white children.

Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality

An analysis of how tracking in the American school system and its relationship to issues of inequality and excellence affected the education of junior and senior high school students in twenty-five US schools.

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

Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms

School segregation within the districts and counties in the state of NC.

Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated Achievement, and De Facto Tracking

Assess impact of achievement and sociodemographic diversity for tracking

Race, Class, and Tournament Track Mobility

Examine pattern of track mobility. Do all groups follow the same pattern or are there different mobility regimes?

Subverting Swann: First- and Second Generation Segregation in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Effects of First and Second Generation segregation on the academic outcomes of CMS students.

White Enrollment in Nonpublic Schools, Public School Racial Composition, and Student Performance

Is enrollment of whites in a nonpublic system associated with racial composition? Does it makes a difference for public school that whites are elsewhere?

Trading in Futures: Why Markets in Education Don't Work

Individual and school level variables effect on achievement.

Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools

Explores the meaning and consequences of tracking and whether or not the high school reforms that allow students to choose the academic level of their own classes provide students with mobility and opportunities that tracking did not.

The American School Dilemma: Race and Scholastic Performance

How race and the racial composition of schools are related to academic achievement.

Effect of School Population Socioeconomic Status on Individual Academic Achievement

Relationship between the socioeconomic status (SES) of peers and individual academic achievement.

An Organizational Analysis of the Effects of Ability Grouping

Examines variation in the quality and effects of instructional discourse across ability groups.

Alternative Uses of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: Can We Bring High-Quality Instruction to Low-Ability Classes?

Explores possible instances of high-quality instruction in low-ability classes.

The Organization of Students for Instruction in the Middle School

The structure of tracking systems and the process of assigning students to tracks for instruction at a critical point in schooling, the middle school.

A Multilevel Model of the Social Distribution of High School Achievement

Why some schools are better able to induce academic outcomes among a broad social and racial distribution of students.

Effects of Cooperative Learning Teams on Student Achievement and Race Relations: Treatment by Race Interactions

Investigation of race by treatment interactions on student achievement and race relations.