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Title: Measuring and Assessing Student Achievement in Urban School Districts
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Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: Urban school districts—where gaps in academic performance by income and race or ethnicity are often largest—are frequently the epicenter of K–12 education reform efforts and debate. Since 2002, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has tracked the performance of select large urban school districts using the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), a subset of the National Assessment of Educational Performance (NAEP). The TUDA provides a district-level estimate of student performance in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math. Although TUDA scores provide valuable insight into student achievement within these districts, the interpretation of these scores is complicated by differences between student populations, both across districts and over time. We look at 2017 district TUDA scores and attempt to level the playing field across districts by controlling for student characteristics. We build on work from two earlier Urban Institute publications: “Making the Grade in America’s Cities,” which looks at 2013 TUDA scores (Blagg 2016), and Breaking the Curve, which looks at 2013 NAEP state scores (Chingos 2015).
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Authors: Blagg, Kristin; Luetmer, Grace
Publisher: Urban Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Land Use/Urban Organization, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity
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