Academic Achievement Gap

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Feb 16, 2021

Adapting Course Placement Processes in Response to COVID-19 Disruptions: Guidance for Schools and Districts

Because of the pandemic, spring 2020 end-of-year assessments were canceled and schools began the 2020-2021 year without assessment data. The authors compare three strategies to estimate missing test scores and help with course placement decisions.
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Feb 3, 2021

Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time

Using internet searches, we study real-time demand for online learning resources. Internet searches for online learning resources doubled during the pandemic. Increases were larger in are as with higher income and better internet access. The pandemic will likely widen achievement gaps along these dimensions.
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Jan 27, 2021

Do Teachers Perceive That Their Main Instructional Materials Meet English Learners' Needs? Key Findings from the 2020 American Instructional Resources Survey

In this Data Note, researchers draw on data from the spring 2020 American Instructional Resources Survey to examine teachers' perceptions of how their main materials meet the needs of English learners.
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Dec 17, 2020

Every Summer Counts: A Longitudinal Analysis of Outcomes from the National Summer Learning Project

This seventh report in a series presents longitudinal findings on the effectiveness of voluntary summer learning programs in five school districts. The authors also offer implications for policy on narrowing the achievement gap between students.
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Oct 16, 2020

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COVID-19 and the Digital Divide

RAND senior policy researcher Julia Kaufman explains how the digital divide impacted teaching and learning when schools closed last spring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sep 24, 2020

The Digital Divide and COVID-19: Teachers' Perceptions of Inequities in Students' Internet Access and Participation in Remote Learning

Researchers investigate the relationship between teachers' reports of students' internet access and their interaction with students and families during school closures related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Jul 28, 2020

Not Where You Start, but How Much You Grow: An Addendum to the Coleman Report

The Coleman Report (1966) first suggested that schools play a relatively small part in shaping students' achievement. The results in this paper suggest a need to update this conventional wisdom.
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Jul 28, 2020

School's Out: The Role of Summers in Understanding Achievement Disparities

We use a novel data set with more than 200 million test scores for students across the United States to explore whether the "fanning out" of achievement from Grades 1 to 8 occurs while students are in school or during the intervening summers.
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Mar 5, 2020

Using Data to Support the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Initiative: Data Collection, Metric and Dashboard Creation, and Lessons Learned

The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative was a multiyear effort to improve student outcomes by increasing access to effective teaching. The authors discuss challenges in measuring effectiveness and how the team addressed them.
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Jun 5, 2019

Investing in Successful Summer Programs: A Review of Evidence Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

This report, which provides a systematic review of the evidence supporting summer programs and descriptions of evidence-based programs, is intended to provide guidance regarding the effectiveness of summer interventions.
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Apr 24, 2019

Pittsburgh Equity Indicators: A Baseline Measurement for Enhancing Equity in Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Equity Indicators assess annual progress toward equitable opportunities and outcomes for Pittsburghers of all races, genders, and incomes. The 2017 report summarizes baseline equality scores, which measure disparities in Pittsburgh.
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Apr 24, 2019

Pittsburgh Equity Indicators: A Baseline Measurement for Enhancing Equity in Pittsburgh

The 2018 Pittsburgh Equity Indicators report in enables the comparison of two years of data to measure change in disparities. The report includes information on equality scores for 2017 and 2018, as well as "change scores" between years.

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Adapting Course Placement Processes in Response to COVID-19 Disruptions: Guidance for Schools and Districts

Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time

Do Teachers Perceive That Their Main Instructional Materials Meet English Learners' Needs? Key Findings from the 2020 American Instructional Resources Survey

Every Summer Counts: A Longitudinal Analysis of Outcomes from the National Summer Learning Project

COVID-19 and the Digital Divide

The Digital Divide and COVID-19: Teachers' Perceptions of Inequities in Students' Internet Access and Participation in Remote Learning

Not Where You Start, but How Much You Grow: An Addendum to the Coleman Report

School's Out: The Role of Summers in Understanding Achievement Disparities

Using Data to Support the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Initiative: Data Collection, Metric and Dashboard Creation, and Lessons Learned

Investing in Successful Summer Programs: A Review of Evidence Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Pittsburgh Equity Indicators: A Baseline Measurement for Enhancing Equity in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Equity Indicators: A Baseline Measurement for Enhancing Equity in Pittsburgh

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Academic Achievement Gap

Academic Achievement Gap

What Do We Know About Microschools and Academic Achievement?

Math Teachers' Efforts Can Really Add Up

Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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Adapting Course Placement Processes in Response to COVID-19 Disruptions: Guidance for Schools and Districts

Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time

Do Teachers Perceive That Their Main Instructional Materials Meet English Learners' Needs? Key Findings from the 2020 American Instructional Resources Survey

Every Summer Counts: A Longitudinal Analysis of Outcomes from the National Summer Learning Project

COVID-19 and the Digital Divide

The Digital Divide and COVID-19: Teachers' Perceptions of Inequities in Students' Internet Access and Participation in Remote Learning

Not Where You Start, but How Much You Grow: An Addendum to the Coleman Report

School's Out: The Role of Summers in Understanding Achievement Disparities

Using Data to Support the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Initiative: Data Collection, Metric and Dashboard Creation, and Lessons Learned

Investing in Successful Summer Programs: A Review of Evidence Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Pittsburgh Equity Indicators: A Baseline Measurement for Enhancing Equity in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Equity Indicators: A Baseline Measurement for Enhancing Equity in Pittsburgh

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