First-Graders' Achievement in Top and Bottom Schools
NCES
Author(s):
John Ralph and Mary Frase (NCES); James Crouse (University of Delaware), and William Thompson (ABT Associates, Inc.)
Publication date:
January 1998
Publication number:
NCES 98041
Summary
Most people believe that schools differ widely from one another in their students' achievement, but little is known about the magnitude of these differences, particularly at the early grades of schooling. This issue brief describes the magnitude of reading and mathematics differences in top and bottom schools by using four different methods.
