Tag: Grade Retention

• Decade of Education Outcome Data: Texas vs. California vs. New York vs. Nation

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  September 27, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, Announcements, High-Stakes Testing, Higher Education Access, Latina/os

  Today we are pleased to release the report Is Texas leading its peers and the nation?: A Decadal Analysis of Educational Data. The Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin commissioned a policy this report in the spring of 2012 to examine education data for the state of Texas,…

  

• As good as advertised?: Tracking urban student progress through high school in an environment of accountability

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  July 29, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  Vasquez Heilig, J. (2011). As good as advertised?: Tracking urban student progress through high school in an environment of accountability. American Secondary Education, 39(3), 17-41. No Child Left Behind’s mandated high-stakes testing and accountability policies have pervaded districts and schools nationwide. To examine student progress and graduation in the midst of first generation Texas-style accountability, this study tracked individuals…