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García, Emma – Economic Policy Institute, 2020
Well over six decades after the Supreme Court declared "separate but equal" schools to be unconstitutional in "Brown v. Board of Education," schools remain heavily segregated by race and ethnicity. The lack of progress in integrating schools: (1) depresses education outcomes for black students; (2) widens performance gaps…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Discrimination, African American Students, Ethnicity
Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
This document provides the two appendixes that accompany the full report, "Algebra I and College Preparatory Diploma Outcomes among Virginia Students Who Completed Algebra I in Grades 7-9." Appendix A, "Methods," details the data sources, study population, and analysis methods used in the study. Appendix B, "Supporting…
Descriptors: Algebra, College Preparation, Grade 7, Grade 8
Hudson, Kimberly M.; Tomkowicz, Joanna T.; Li, Wen-Ching – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of the current research study was to investigate the extent to which student performance was influenced by the disruption to learning that occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To explain observed differences in performance, we compared outcomes from a state-wide summative testing program between students who were administered the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Achievement, Scores
Beth E. Schueler; Katherine E. Larned – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Few interventions reduce inequality in reading achievement, let alone higher order thinking skills, among adolescents. We study "policy debate"--an extracurricular activity focused on improving middle and high schoolers' critical thinking, argumentation, and policy analysis skills--in Boston schools serving large concentrations of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Jason Schoeneberger; Xiaodong Zhang; Samantha Spinney; Jing Sun; Lauren Kennedy; Samira Rajesh Syal – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand the impact, implementation and costs associated with a one-semester elective lab course in 9th grade, Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA) Lab, which seeks to improve students' reading achievement, particularly for those from economically disadvantaged communities. This study used three cohorts…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Learning Laboratories, Reading Centers
Andrew P. Jaciw; Sze-Shun Lau; Jenna Zacamy; Li Lin – Empirical Education Inc., 2023
The Collaboration and Reflection to Enhance Atlanta Teacher Effectiveness (CREATE) is a three-year teacher residency program that seeks to recruit, support, and retain a diverse, highly effective, and culturally competent educator workforce that is committed to working in high-needs schools and to improving student outcomes. This evaluation…
Descriptors: Diversity, Teacher Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Coen, Thomas; Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Gleason, Philip – Mathematica, 2019
In this report, the authors present the results of a long-term tracking study that follows 1,177 students who applied to enter 1 of 13 oversubscribed Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) middle schools through a 5th or 6th grade admissions lottery in 2008 or 2009. Those students are now old enough to have attended college for at least two years. This…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Program Effectiveness, College Attendance, Academic Persistence
Wang, Crystal; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2020
This is the full report. In 2019-2020, the program's third federally funded year, GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) Austin served a cohort of 8th grade students (n = 2,546) across 11 middle schools. Nearly all GEAR UP students received support services relevant to college preparation. Evaluation findings…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 8, College Readiness, Undergraduate Study
Losen, Daniel J.; Martinez, Paul – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2020
This national study provides a comprehensive analysis of the instructions days lost due to out-of-school suspensions in 2015-16 for middle and high school students, for every state and district. The study also demonstrates how the frequent use of suspension contributes to stark inequities in the opportunity to learn, especially for those groups…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Suspension, Discipline Policy, Race
Partridge, Mark A.; Koon, Sharon – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2017
The purpose of this report was to determine which Mississippi public schools perform better than could be predicted, considering demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Additionally, this study identified profiles of schools within Mississippi, or groups of schools with similar socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. This study…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Schools
Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2018
The Austin Independent School District's (AISD's) My Brother's Keeper program provided mentors for students experiencing chronic absenteeism at six campuses in the 2016-2017 school year. This report summarizes program outcomes.
Descriptors: School Districts, Mentors, Attendance, Program Effectiveness
Empirical Education Inc., 2019
"Learning A-Z" contracted with Empirical Education to study the effectiveness of "Raz-Plus" in Milwaukee Public Schools during the 2016-17 school year. "Raz-Plus" is a literacy program that includes leveled books, skills practice, and digital activities and assessments. This study focused on 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Jackson, C. Kirabo; Porter, Shanette C.; Easton, John Q.; Kiguel, Sebastian – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th grade) for students who are more versus less "educationally advantaged" (i.e., likely to attain more years of education based on 8th-grade…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Effectiveness, At Risk Students, Graduation Rate
Urdegar, Steven M. – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2015
Changes to the proportion of the students enrolled at the charter and traditional schools in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) result from the entry of students new to the District and/or student movement into and between schools. As of October 2015, 16.6% of all M-DCPS students attended a charter school. The principal purpose of this…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Enrollment, Student Mobility
McCormick, Rachel; Harvill, Eleanor; Mendez, Jacqueline; Shea, Meghan – Abt Associates, 2021
This technical appendix supports the "New Mexico Charter School Study: Findings Report," providing detailed information on statistical methods and results. The document includes: (1) Overview of Study Design; (2) Charter School Lottery Study; and (3) Dual Language and Charter School Matching Study. The Charter School Lottery Study…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Admission (School), Selective Admission, Bilingual Education