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Staklis, Sandra; Matthews, Morgan – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
Research on academic achievement has demonstrated the important role that teachers play in improving student outcomes and has also revealed wide variation in teachers' qualifications and experiences across schools. Schools serving low-income students in urban areas, for example, have fewer well-qualified teachers than schools in nonurban settings…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, School Location, Teacher Certification
Deschenes, Sarah N.; Arbreton, Amy; Little, Priscilla M.; Herrera, Carla; Grossman, Jean Baldwin; Weiss, Heather B. – Harvard Family Research Project, 2010
Out-of-school time (OST) programs represent a vital opportunity and resource for learning and development for children and youth. Given the potential of city-level OST initiatives to support participation, and against the national backdrop of inequitable access to quality OST programs for older youth from disadvantaged communities, The Wallace…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, After School Programs, Youth Programs, Child Development
Hajat, Anjum; Lucas, Jacqueline B.; Kington, Raynard – 2000
In this report, various health measures are compared across Hispanic subgroups in the United States. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data aggregated from 1992 through 1995 were analyzed. NHIS is one of the few national surveys that has a sample sufficiently large enough to allow such comparisons. Both age-adjusted and unadjusted estimates…
Descriptors: Health, Hispanic Americans, Interviews, Low Income Groups