Not exact matches
As our schools serve greater numbers of Hispanic
students and fewer whites, for example, we should
expect achievement to decline somewhat because Hispanic
students, who are more likely to live in poverty, tend to perform at lower levels, on
average, than whites.
In contrast, a KIPP
student can
expect a large increase over time in the
average grade 4
achievement of his peers.
If we then turn to the labor market, a
student with
achievement (as measured by test performance in high school) that is one standard deviation above
average can later in life
expect to take in 10 to 15 percent higher earnings per year.
Studies so far tell us that we can
expect the «better» teacher's
students to score about 6 percentile points higher, on
average, on a standardized
achievement test than the
students of the «worse» teacher.