Evaluating State Equity and Adequacy in School Resources and Math Achievement: Multilevel Joint Analyses Linking NAEP to the Schools and Staffing Survey and the School District Finance Survey

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to combine background data from two in-depth surveys of schools and school resources with achievement data from NAEP in order to clarify the status of racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps in the nation and the states and to help identify key school resources that can affect these gaps.