The Effect of School Poverty Concentration in WCPSS. Research Watch. E&R Report.

Autor/in	Banks, Karen
Institution	Wake County Public School System, Raleigh, NC. Dept. of Evaluation and Research.
Titel	The Effect of School Poverty Concentration in WCPSS. Research Watch. E&R Report.
Quelle	(2001), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Academic Achievement; Elementary Secondary Education; Institutional Characteristics; Low Income Groups; Poverty; Socioeconomic Status + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Armut; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status
Abstract	Data compiled on the impact of school poverty in the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), North Carolina, support the current policy that sets 40% as a target maximum percentage of low-income students that would be assigned to a school. Major findings of a study of the effects of school poverty in the WCPSS include the determination that previous actions of the district have created a system of schools in which relatively few campuses have a high concentration of poverty. Given the variations in WCPSS schools' performance, many factors beyond school poverty are affecting achievement growth in each school. Analysis of the North Carolina End-of-Grade (EOG) test scores show that small reductions in the concentration of poverty at a school are unlikely to have a meaningful effect on student achievement growth, although the differences might be statistically significant. Larger changes in the concentration of poverty in a school would be likely to produce changes in student achievement growth that would be both statistically and educationally significant. Two appendixes contain a report on tests for the curvilinear effects of school poverty on EOG scores by grade and subject and achievement test results for low-income students. (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC