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In a new Brookings Institution study (pdf), Matthew Chingo, Grover Whitehurst, and Michael Gallaher use data from Florida and North Carolina to determine whether there is a relationship between school district reform and student achievement. Researchers found that school districts “account for only a small share (1 to 2%) of the total variation in studentContinue Reading

Northwestern University professor C. Kirabo Jackson’s new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study used data from North Carolina to evaluate a model that assessed teacher quality based on both cognitive (test scores) and non-cognitive (absences, suspensions, grades, and grade progression) factors. In “Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers inContinue Reading

A new report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education reveals some sobering statistics: Nationwide, 52 percent of Black male and 58 percent of Latino male ninth-graders graduate from high school four years later, while 78 percent of White, non-Latino male ninth-graders graduate four years later. Black male students in North Carolina in 2009-10 graduatedContinue Reading

According to a new report published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, states like North Carolina would receive a substantial economic boost by increasing graduation rates among racial and ethnic minority populations (African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans). If half of North Carolina’s minority dropouts in the class of 2010 had graduated, AllianceContinue Reading