American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. Source: American Educational Reasearch Journal
Month: May 2022
Locally Elected School Boards Are Failing
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School Policies and the Success of Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students – by David Figlio
Executive summary
We make use of matched birth-school administrative data from Florida, coupled with an extensive survey of instructional policies and practices, to observe which policies and practices are associated with improved test performance for relatively advantaged students in a school, for relatively disadvantaged students in a school, for both, and for neither.
We co...
In the News: Text Your Way to College – by Education Next
In the New York Times, David Kirp writes about efforts to raise college enrollment and graduation rates among students from poor families by texting the students regularly with helpful information and reminders.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors make bad choices about where — or whether — to go to college. Some who would excel at top-ranked institutions ...