Report Statistical Analysis Report

Urban Schools: The Challenge of Location and Poverty

NCES
Author(s):
Laura Lippman, Shelley Burns, Edith McArthur, NCES, with contributions by Robert Burton, Thomas M. Smith, NCES, Phil Kaufman, MPR Associates, Inc.
Publication date:
August 1996
Survey areas:
SASS - Schools and Staffing Survey
HS&B - High School & Beyond
NELS:88 - National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988
NAEP - National Assessment of Educational Progress
HST - High School Transcript Studies
Publication number:
NCES 96184

Summary

This analytic report draws from several NCES surveys to illuminate the question of the condition of education in urban schools compared to schools in other locations.

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