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Socioeconomic Groups
School Matters: Texas Homepage
This service of Standard and Poor provides a wealth of information on student performance, school environment, and more at the state, district, and school level. It allows users to create customized and downloadable data reports, and it includes specific resources for parents, educators, and district and state leaders. |
TEA’s Academic Excellence Indicator System
This portion of the Texas Education Agency Web site provides reports about school performance from 1991-2004. Information is available at the campus, district, and grade level for mathematics, science, and other content areas. It includes data on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and English proficiency. |
TEA Science Curriculum Web page
This resource area on the Texas Education Agency’s Web site links to information on curriculum, assessment, rules, and other science related issues. It also links to conference presentations by TEA staff, which provide in-depth analysis of student performance in science. |
Education Week and Teacher Magazine
This site provides resources to allow the user to conduct customized
searches on data relating to state tests and the National Assessment
of Educational Progress in the United States. |
Parsing the Achievement Gap (PDF download)
This Educational Testing Systems publication synthesizes a large body of research to identify 14 conditions that help create and perpetuate achievement gaps. |
Promoting Power
This
page of the Center for Social Organization of Schools summarizes
findings and links to multiple resources relating to promotion policies
and who they impact the racial/ethnic and low socio economic groups.
Of special interest is the “Locating the Dropout Crisis” which
identifies US high schools producing the most dropouts. |
Reports
on Educational Attainment
This page on Child Trends Data Bank’s
Web site lists research conducted from 1971-2003 on the level of
education attained by race and gender. |
School
Matters
This service of Standard and Poor provides a wealth
of information on student performance, school environment, and
more at the state, district, and school level. It allows users
to create customized and downloadable data reports, and it includes
specific resources for parents, educators, and district and state
leaders. |
Student
Mobility Report
This report by the Metropolitan Housing Coalition
studies the link between education and housing, describing why
students who do not have stable homes suffer in their academic
performance. |
The
Minority Student Achievement Network
This national coalition of multiracial, relatively affluent suburban
school districts studies the disparity in achievement between white
students and students of color through intensive research. Publications
available through their site include:
- What is the Relationship Between Race and Achievement in Our
Schools?
- Public Education and Black Male: A State Report Card Students
- Latino Achievement in America
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The
New Diversity
This article explores how the population in the
United States has changed since Brown v. Board of Education. It
is part of an April 2004 American School Board Journal special
report on the unfinished legacy of that ruling. |
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