Poor School Funding, Child Poverty and Mathematics Achievement

  • Level of curriculum is a major concomitant of achievement.
  • Net effects of child poverty are substantial and largely independent of those of race.
  • Level of school funding and child poverty have substantial and statistically significant net effects on average student achievement among the school districts of America. These effects stand up even when juxtaposed with those of two crucial, district-level control variables, level of curricular instruction and race.
  • No race effect but probably due to size of sample.