Sentences with phrase «student socioeconomic composition»

In our site - based work, which included in - depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, we examined 24 high schools with varying legal environments situated across three states (New York, North Carolina, and California), stratified by school type (traditional public, charter, and Catholic) as well as by student socioeconomic composition.

Not exact matches

Some performance differences between schools may be related to the socioeconomic composition of the school's student population or other characteristics of the student body.

This acknowledges a wide body of research that shows that the socioeconomic composition of schools is the greatest factor affecting student achievement.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

These approaches include using students» socioeconomic status, parental education levels, the socioeconomic status of neighborhoods, and the composition of an area's housing including its share of subsidized or rental housing.

Socioeconomic Composition and Attainment 1 The Effect of High School Socioeconomic Composition on Student Attainment

Rumberger and Palardy (2005) found that the socioeconomic composition of the school was as strong a predictor of student outcomes as students» own socioeconomic status.

However, a number of studies have found that the relationship between student outcomes and the socioeconomic composition of schools is strong even after controlling for some of these factors, using more nuanced measures of socioeconomic status, or comparing outcomes for students randomly assigned to schools (Reid, 2012; Schwartz, 2012).