Scholars Test Out New Yardsticks of School Poverty

Autor/in	Viadero, Debra
Titel	Scholars Test Out New Yardsticks of School Poverty
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2006) 11, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Low Income Groups; Lunch Programs; School Choice; Poverty; Neighborhoods; Measurement Techniques; Evaluation Methods; Socioeconomic Status; Census Figures; National Competency Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittagessen; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Armut; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Messtechnik; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Volkszählung
Abstract	When education researchers want to measure the collective poverty level in a school, they typically use the same yardstick: the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced rate meals under the federal school lunch program. But dissatisfaction with that indicator is prompting some researchers to cast about for better ways to gauge the socioeconomic status of schools. Mark S. Schneider, the commissioner of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, plans to embed a much larger test of alternative measures in 2007 in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a set of congressionally mandated tests taken by nationally representative samples of students every few years. The commissioner has indicated that the center would also draw on federal Census data to "geocode" student test-takers and gather information on the neighborhoods where they live to better account for children taking advantage of school choice options. He also expects to be able to report the results of the NAEP trials within a year. But if any of the alternatives turns out to be a reliable gauge of poverty, it would be an open question whether districts will want to take the next step and use a different measure in deciding how to give out Title I money. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10