How Effective Are Los Angeles Elementary Teachers and Schools?

Over the past three decades, educational reforms have played a major role in local, state, and federal policy debates. Several factors drive the push for reforms: U.S. students have not performed as well on science and math tests as students in other industrial countries. Low-income and minority students lag significantly behind other students on most measures of academic achievement. The private sector has pushed for improvements in human capital investment, so the U.S. can remain competitive in the growing hightechnology economy.