Are Achievement Gaps Related to Discipline Gaps? Evidence From National Data

Practical Issues in Estimating Achievement Gaps from Coarsened Data

Ho and Reardon (2012) present methods for estimating achievement gaps when test scores are coarsened into a small number of ordered categories, preventing fine-grained distinctions between individual scores. They demonstrate that gaps can nonetheless be estimated with minimal bias across a broad range of simulated and real coarsened data scenarios. In this paper, we extend this previous work to...

Closing Achievement Gaps

groups are a prominent feature of today’s educational landscape, with black and Hispanic children regularly falling far behind white children. Although the achievement gaps narrowed somewhat during the 1970s and 1980s, they have since proved stubbornly resistant to closing further. If the nation is to achieve the goal of equal education as “a fact and a result,” to borrow President Lyndon Johns...

Research Brief: Total Compensation Gaps are Distinct from Wage Gaps

Title : Socioeconomic Gaps in Parents ’ Discipline Strategies from 1988 - 2011

Title Page Title: Socioeconomic Gaps in Parents’ Discipline Strategies from 1988-2011 Authors and Affiliations: Rebecca M. Ryan, Georgetown University Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, New York University Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago Christina Padilla, Georgetown University Socioeconomic Gaps in Parents’ Discipline Strategies from 1988-2011 Background / Context: Numerous studies show large differen...

Achievement Gaps for Students with Disabilities

Reading comprehension growth trajectories from third to seventh grade were estimated for 99,919 students on a state reading comprehension assessment. We examined whether differences between students in general education (GE) and groups of students identified as exceptional learners were best characterized as stable, widening, or narrowing. The groups included students with disabilities (SWD) fr...