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Lake, Robin; Posamentier, Jordan; Denice, Patrick; Hill, Paul – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2016
The portfolio strategy is a change strategy for public education in a district or metropolitan area. It is founded on the idea of re-missioning government agencies from rigid bureaucratic entities that mostly manage compliance requirements and interest group politics to a new role: overseeing performance and a diverse range of school choices…
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Implementation, Portfolios (Background Materials), Change Strategies
Bradbury, Katharine; Burke, Mary A.; Triest, Robert K. – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2013
Although the recent wave of mortgage foreclosures has clearly been accompanied by economic hardship, relatively little research has examined how foreclosures affect the academic performance of students. This paper investigates the relationship between mortgage foreclosures and the academic performance of students using a unique dataset that…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Housing, Debt (Financial)
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report compares Massachusetts's reading and mathematics performance on the most recent administrations of the state assessment with performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To indicate how Massachusetts is doing in narrowing the academic achievement gap between African American, Latino, or low-income students and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, American Indians, Asian American Students