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Download full textHouston Independent School District, 2015
The Title I, Part A program is designed to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and achieve, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments. The program's goal is accomplished by providing supplemental funding for educational…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Achievement Tests
Houston Independent School District, 2015
The Title I, Part A program is designed to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and achieve, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments. The program's goal is accomplished by providing supplemental funding for educational…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Achievement Tests
Houston Independent School District, 2013
The purpose of this report is to evaluate the student achievement performance on the state's standardized tests and Houston Independent School District's (ISD's) norm-referenced tests for students in Title I, Part A schools. This report discusses student performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), Texas Assessment…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
Jacob, Anna M.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2012
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) is the nation's oldest and largest urban school choice program, offering private-school scholarships to low-income students in the city of Milwaukee since 1990. In the early years of the program, voucher schools were not required to test their students, though many of them did so using nationally normed…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Educational Testing
McShane, Michael Q.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2011
The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive data regarding the test scores of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) students in grades 4, 8 and 10 in reading, math and science, as reported to the School Choice Demonstration Project 2009-2010. The tables, graphs, and histograms presented in this report provide a snapshot of these…
Descriptors: School Choice, Lunch Programs, Achievement Gains, Demonstration Programs
Xu, Zeyu; Nichols, Austin – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2010
The gold standard in making causal inference on program effects is a randomized trial. Most randomization designs in education randomize classrooms or schools rather than individual students. Such "clustered randomization" designs have one principal drawback: They tend to have limited statistical power or precision. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Test Format, Reading Tests, Norm Referenced Tests, Research Design
Gray, Nathan L.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Jensen, Laura I. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2008
With the passage of 2005 Wisconsin Act 125, private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) are now required to administer a nationally normed standardized test annually in reading, mathematics, and science to their MPCP (a.k.a. "Choice") students enrolled in the 4th, 8th, and 10th grades. The law further…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Grades (Scholastic), School Choice, Achievement Gains
Dean, Jeffery R.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2010
The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive data regarding the test scores of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) students in grades 4, 8 and 10 in reading, math, and science, as reported to the School Choice Demonstration Project 2008-2009. The tables, graphs, and histograms presented in this paper provide a snapshot of these…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, School Choice, Achievement Gains, Testing
Gray, Nathan L.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Jensen, Laura I. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2009
The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive data regarding the test scores of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) students in grades 4, 8 and 10 in reading, math and science, as reported to the School Choice Demonstration Project 2007-2008. The tables, graphs, and histograms presented in this report provide a snapshot of these…
Descriptors: School Choice, Testing, Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs
