In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a
negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco …

Purpose: This study examines the influence of principal leadership in high schools on
classroom instruction and student achievement through key organizational factors, including …

This study compares rural educational disadvantage across Australia, Canada, and New
Zealand using data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's …

This study addresses the question: Do second-grade students from low-socioeconomic-
status (SES) schools taught with an iteratively designed project-based approach to social …

In this article, the author examines the links between high stakes testing policies, school
organization processes, and instructional practice using data from a study of K-5 and K-8 …

We used population-based, longitudinal data to investigate the relation between
mathematics instructional practices used by first-grade teachers in the United States and the …

The present study investigates the effects of different teaching strategies on student
achievement using data from the so-called TALIS-PISA link created by the OECD. This is a …

Existing literature on the impact of Common Core State Standards in Math has shown little
benefit, but it has not examined variation in outcomes based on implementation strategies …

Background While the relationship between school socioeconomic composition and student
academic outcomes is well established, knowledge about differential effects is not extensive …

The purpose of this study is to determine the degree to which Opportunity to Learn (OTL), is
associated with students' achievement in US History. Opportunity to Learn stems from the …