Cognitive Skills, Student Achievement Tests, and Schools

Cognitive skills, student achievement tests, and schools.

Cognitive skills predict academic performance, so schools that improve academic performance might also improve cognitive skills. To investigate the impact schools have on both academic performance and cognitive skills, we related standardized achievement-test scores to measures of cognitive skills in a large sample (N = 1,367) of eighth-grade students attending traditional, exam, and charter pu...

Magnet Schools and Student Achievement

Gender and Student Achievement in English Schools

Student Achievement in the Pittsburgh Public Schools

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School Reform in Philadelphia: A Comparison of Student Achievement at Privately-Managed Schools with Student Achievement in Other District Schools

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) asks that states " restructure " schools that fail for six years running to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) toward full proficiency on the part of all students by the year 2014. According to the legislation, restructuring may entail the transformation of the school into a charter school, the shift of management to a private entity (either for-profit or non-profit...