Learning growth and starting level

Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.

The question

Do students in districts that start behind learn faster or slower between third and eighth grade?

The data

• Stanford Education Data ArchiveYears: 2009-2019 (version 6.0)

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The scope

Institutions Each row of the data is an institution such as a school district or a college, so results describe institutions, not the people in them.

The chapter sits in Part II, School, in the volume Cradle and climb. Its unit of analysis is institutions. See how the book treats evidence.