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Portz, John; Beauchamp, Nicholas – Educational Policy, 2022
This paper examines different state approaches to educational accountability in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act. Cluster analysis reveals three groups of states with similar indicator weights and rating systems, and principal component analysis identifies two dimensions underlying these clusters. We find that state-level demographics…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
April Yelani Ferguson – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This applied dissertation was designed to provide the effectiveness of promoting change management through historical findings of closing reading comprehension (i.e., vocabulary) achievement gaps with black and white 9th and 10th grade students in a private school and 66 participants in this study. Achievement gaps in education refers to the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Private Schools, Public Schools, Differences
Ni, Xinyu; Bowers, Alex J.; Esswein, Jennifer – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this report is to summarize the key elements of school and district level Performance Index scores (PI scores) for the 50 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) across the United States. PI scores are partial or overall summative ratings of schools or districts currently used across US state accountability systems to assess…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Schools, School Districts, Computation