The rise of accountability policies during the early 1990s coincided with an increase in the
achievement gap between white and minority students, reversing decades of steady …

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School Subjects Zongyi Deng & Allan Luke What then, do we mean by a study in the curriculum …

In the mid-1990s, the Chicago Public Schools declared an end to social promotion and
instituted promotional requirements based on standardized test scores in the third, sixth, and …

The United States is as known for its high-quality universities as for its poor-quality public
schools. Many states are taking steps to improve the likelihood that their children will …

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Abstract The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has brought great attention to the high school
graduation rate as one of the mandatory accountability measures for public school systems …

Across the country, grade promotion is tied increasingly to performance on standardized
tests. One concern about such policies is that they might increase dropout rates. Policy …

A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public
school system from one of the worst in the nation to one of the most improved. How a City …

This paper examines the effect of maternal imprisonment on children's probability of
retention using propensity score matching. The sample consists of children attending …

Merit promotion policies that require students to post passing scores on standardized tests
or be retained in grade have become widespread. In this study, the author used a cultural …