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Steinberg, Matthew P. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
The Supplemental Educational Services (SES) provision of the No Child Left Behind Act offers free tutoring services to students attending perennially underperforming schools. The author assesses the extent to which Chicago Public Schools students most in need of and who could potentially benefit the most from additional academic instruction…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Student Participation, Academic Achievement
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Henry, Gary T.; Fortner, C. Kevin; Thompson, Charles L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
Evaluating the impacts of public school funding on student achievement has been an important objective for informing education policymaking but fraught with data and methodological limitations. Findings from prior research have been mixed at best, leaving policymakers with little advice about the benefits of allocating public resources to schools…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Regression (Statistics)