achievement gap
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Food for Thought: SNAP Distribution and Student Achievement
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Decades of innovative education reform have focused on how to improve schools, yet academic success is about more than just classrooms and teachers. One factor that may affect student achievement is food stability; researchers and policymakers are asking how a student’s access to nutritional food impacts that student’s success in…
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How Does Compulsory Math Education Close the Racial Income Gap?
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STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education has been a national imperative for decades. More recent administrations have prioritized STEM in schools due to the rising importance of mathematical skills in the labor market. The American Competitive Initiative, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2006, committed a…
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Analyzing Racial Bias in Selecting Students for Gifted Classes
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Gifted programs in U.S. schools help many students find the sort of academic success that opens the door to opportunities later in life. A recent Vanderbilt University study explores the depths of inequality in the assignment of black students to gifted programs. The authors utilize data from the Early Childhood…
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Enduring Damage: The Effects of Childhood Poverty on Adult Health
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This piece, first published on November 27, 2013, is being republished as part of the Chicago Policy Review‘s 20th Anniversary Series. Please visit us here to learn more about the series from our Executive Editors. Many of the costs of poverty are self-evident. Lack of reliable access to basic needs such as food, housing, and medicine…
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Wicked Smart: Massachusetts’s Efforts to Turn Around a Failing School District
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Just 30 miles north of Boston on the Merrimack River is the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. This industrial metropolitan area is home to almost 80,000 people, with a median household income of $32,851 and a poverty rate of 29.2 percent. Almost 40 percent of residents are immigrants, coming predominantly from…
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True Colors: How Ethnic Studies Courses Can Help Minority High School Students
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New research shows promising impacts of Ethnic Studies courses for students in the San Francisco Unified School District.
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Closing the School Readiness Gap for Children Born to Teenage Mothers
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In her paper, Amber L. Brown evaluates whether there is a difference in the school readiness of children born to teenage mothers versus children born to average-age mothers participating in the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program. The results suggest that children born to teenage mothers perform…
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The Impact of Chicago’s Excellence in Teaching Project on Student Performance
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After the first year of school, Steinberg and Sartain find that the Excellence in Teaching Project has an impact of 0.10 standard deviations on students’ reading scores.
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Better School Outcomes Aren’t Free
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A new analysis demonstrates that funding increases make a huge difference in schooling outcomes, especially for students from low-income families.
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ABC, It’s as Easy as 1 2 3: Parents as Early Teachers
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New research shows that parental incentives for child development can yield large gains in both cognitive and non-cognitive domains for young children.
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Enduring Damage: The Effects of Childhood Poverty on Adult Health
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For young children, poverty’s most damaging effects manifest over time.