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Brown, Kathleen Sullivan; Mullin, Christopher M.; White, Bradford R. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2009
The Illinois High School Class of 2002 is part of the third generational wave of American students following the landmark Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka," which outlawed segregation in public education. This longitudinal study allows the authors to examine the long-term impacts of this monumental…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Policy, Racial Differences, Postsecondary Education
Howley, Craig B. – 1999
Previous studies found that the small size of schools or school districts mitigated the negative influence of poverty on academic achievement in California, Alaska, and West Virginia. The Matthew Project extends this research in four additional states selected to provide varied settings. Montana has a remarkable number of small schools and small…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Correlation, Economically Disadvantaged
Dougherty, Chrys; Mellor, Lynn; Jian, Shuling – National Center for Educational Accountability, 2006
This study explores the relationship between college graduation rates and student participation and success in Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams. We reviewed three approaches to examining this relationship: 1) comparing the college graduation rates of AP and non-AP students; 2) comparing the college graduation rate of AP and non-AP…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Graduation Rate, Student Participation, Academic Achievement