Impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap.
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ClearCan No Child Left Behind Close the Gaps in Pass Rates on Standardized Tests?
Quantify the degree to which the worst-performing schools can realistically increase their pass rates and thereby narrow the gap in pass rates.
Trends of School Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from NLS:72, HSB:82, and NELS:92
This study examines the impact of schools on student achievement (mathematics, reading, and science) over time using national probability samples of high school seniors. Our objective is to determine whether schools ‘‘make a difference.’’
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.
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.
K-12 Race-Conscious Student Assignment Policies: Law, Social Science and Diversity
Examines the legality of K-12 race-conscious student assignment policies
School Segregation and Black Achievement: New Evidence from the 2003 NAEP
Studies the relationship between racial composition and achievement using the 2003 and 2005 NAEP data.
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.
Addressing Institutional Inequities in Education: The Case of Advanced Placement Courses in California
Evaluate equality of opportunities that students of different races/ethnicities/social classes & communities have to participate in AP courses in CA.
Effects of School Segregation and School Resources in a Changing Policy Context
Impact of school composition and school resources on student achievement growth.
Fifty Years after Brown: New Evidence of the Impact of School Racial Composition on Student Outcomes
Expand the discussion of the impact of desegregation beyond the traditional test measures & including racial groups that have been largely ignored.
How Desegregation Changed Us: The Effects of Racially Mixed Schools on Students and Society
Ideas of graduates, educators, advocates and local policy makers who were directly involved in racially mixed public high schools 25 years ago.
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.
Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance
Provide evidence on the expected effects of NCLB not only on student performance but also on other potential consequences. Controlled for student and school characteristics.
Multiple Facets of Inequity in Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gaps
Examine how inequitable the racial achievement gaps are and how much progress towards equity was made through changes in achievement gaps.
The Relationship Between PreK-5 and K-5 Elementary School Size and Student Achievement of Grade 5 Students on the Mat7 in SC for the School Years 1996-97 and 1997-98
Determine whether a relationship exists between school size and student achievement in reading and in math in SC public elementary schools.
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
School Integration and Residential Segregation in California: Challenges for Racial Equity
Analyzed elementary schools in five California metropolitan areas to examine the extent that the racial composition of schools deviates from neighborhood compositions, and investigate the potential for schools to promote racial integration.
Opportunity at the Crossroads: Racial Inequality, School Segregation, and Higher Education in California
Underrepresentation of African American and Latino high school graduates among students qualified for admission to California’s public, baccalaureate.
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?
Reflections of an Expert Witness
Reflections of Armor’s experience as an expert witness in over 30 school desegregation cases
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 Effects of Racial Dissonance on the Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem of Hispanic Middle School Students
Assess the relevance of Rosenberg’s theory of racial dissonance with Hispanic middle school students.
Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms
School segregation within the districts and counties in the state of NC.
The Political Economy of School Choice: Linking Theory and Evidence
Apply findings to simulate the impact of a hypothetical school voucher on private enrollment, the tax rate, public spending per student, and welfare.
Disparities Within: Unequal Spending and Achievement in an Urban School District
Analyzes variations in spending and achievement among 89 public elementary schools.
Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation
Examines student friendship patterns across racial/ethnic groups in multiracial schools
Increasing Diversity and Persistent Segregation: Challenges of Educating Minority and Immigrant Children in Urban America
An overview of America’s racial and ethnic composition from the 2000 Census and the implications of increasing diversity for urban public schools.
Special Education or Racial Segregation: Understanding Variation in the Representation of Black Students in Educable Mentally Handicapped Programs
Studies the effects of local racial/political-economic structures, school district characteristics and school desegregation politics on the number and proportion of black students in educable mentally handicapped (EMH).
Racial Segregation in Georgia Public Schools 1994-2001: Trends, Causes and Impact on Teacher Quality
Racial Segregation in GA Public Schools.
Buying Homes, Buying Schools: School Choice and the Social Construction of School Quality
What are the choices of the parents who advocates feel are unfairly privileged in the existing educational system?
Students' Precollege Preparation for Participation in a Diverse Democracy
How students’ precollege experiences predisposed them to 3 democratic outcomes.
Teacher Sorting and the Plight of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis
Determine how much variation in the average attributes of teachers currently exists across schools.
Texas Public Schools: Ethnic/Racial, Socioeconomic, and Linguistic Composition of Student Bodies and Academic Test Performance
What is the relationship between student body’s ethnic/racial, socioeconomic and linguistic composition with academic performance?
Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated Achievement, and De Facto Tracking
Assess impact of achievement and sociodemographic diversity for tracking
What Do Parents Want from Schools? Evidence from the Internet
The aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools.
Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration of Chicano Students: Old and New Realities
1) What is the prevalence and effects of Chicano segregation?
2) What is the history of Chicano segregation and racism towards Chicanos?
3) What are the contemporary issues in Chicano segregation? 4) What has been or can be done to integrate Chicano students?
Are Whites Still Fleeing? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987-1996
Examines recent trends in enrollment and racial composition in urban public schools. Does desegregation contribute to white enrollment losses?
Why Public Schools Lose Teachers?
Why Public Schools Lose Teachers? Understanding of the effects of salary and other school factors on teacher transitions.
Students' Attachment and Academic Engagement: The Role of Race and Ethnicity
Examines relationship between race and school attachment and engagement.
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?
Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation
Identify the effects of peers using sources of idisyncratic sources of variation, such as changes in the gender and racial composition.
High School Racial Composition: Balancing Excellence and Equity
Addresses the relationship between school racial composition and educational outcomes.
Trading in Futures: Why Markets in Education Don't Work
Individual and school level variables effect on achievement.