In 2010, the PRISE Research Group developed a new student outcome variable, SASS, using state measures of high school success in science and college readiness. This variable was used to determine the relationships of school support practices and teacher characteristics to positive student outcomes in science. New analyses completed during the 20102011 school year by the PRISE Research Group ind...

In present study, it was examined that how parent collaboration with school and student, affect students’ math achievement, and how this effect varies across schools. . (NELS) data set includes 24.599 8 grade students from 1042 high schools throughout the U.S. in 1988. In this data set some of the topics covered are school, work, parent’s educational background. By using two-level HLM), an atte...

The combined effects of standards-based reforms and accountability demands arising from recent technological and economic changes, say Tom Corcoran and Megan Silander, are requiring high schools to accomplish something they have never been required to do-ensure that substantially all students achieve at a relatively high level. Meeting that challenge, say the authors, will require high schools ...

This article examines the impact of private high schools vs. public high schools on the academic performance of 15,270 undergraduate students registered at Ball State University. Students who went to religious high schools seem to outperform their private and public school counterparts. However, the impact of this advantage is a relatively small increase (0.055–0.073) in GPA on a four-point sca...

We investigate how “top-N percent” policies in college admission affect diversity at the high-school level. It is well understood that these policies produce incentives for students to relocate to schools with weaker competition. We show theoretically that such school arbitrage can neutralize the policy at the college level but may partially desegregate high schools. These predictions are suppo...

OBJECTIVE Social science and health literature have identified residential segregation as a critical factor in exposure to health-related resources, including food environments. Differential spatial patterning of food environments surrounding schools has significant import for youth. We examined whether fast food restaurants clustered around schools in New York City, and whether any observed cl...