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Curto, Vilsa E.; Fryer, Roland G., Jr. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student's environment through…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Boarding Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Outcomes of Education
Aguilar, Ramona Morin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study will be to determine if there is a relationship between Hispanic student achievement and the percentage of Hispanic teachers per district in the state of Texas. Specifically, this study will investigate the relationship between the percentage of Hispanic students per district who pass the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
Chambers, Jay G.; Levin, Jesse; Brodziak, Iliana; Chan, Derek – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2010
Using fiscal data provided by the finance office of the school district, and personnel data obtained from the California Basic Education Data System maintained by the California Department of Education (CDE), the authors present analyses to provide a foundation for local policymakers that may be used to assess whether there are inequities in the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Personnel Data