Student Mobility is increasing on Long Island, NY, the site of the present study related to the demographic changes of increasing immigration and poverty. Mobile students often struggle academically, and are at risk for school drop-out or failure. Mobility is sometimes combined with other risk factors such as gender, ethnicity, limited English,…

A statistical analysis of data on Michigan, New York City, New York State, and Project Talent schools found evidence of schools that consistently produce outstanding students even after allowance is made for the different initial endowments of their students and for chance variation. Methodologically, like many previous studies, this report uses…

The Quality Measurement Project was established in 1956 by the New York State Education Department to determine the feasibility of measuring quality differences between schools and of identifying variables related to these differences. In the latest revision of the project, begun in 1964, 99 representative school systems, excluding the New York…