La Frontera: Student Achievement in Texas Border and Nonborder Districts
This study offers policymakers a data-rich profile of the education environment in the region of Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border, known as La Frontera.
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This study offers policymakers a data-rich profile of the education environment in the region of Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border, known as La Frontera.
This descriptive analysis, prepared by REL West, provides a statistical profile of Arizona's lowest performing school districts, which can inform the context for district improvement as Arizona rolls out and refines its district intervention strategies.
This descriptive analysis, prepared by REL West, provides a statistical profile of California’s Title I school districts in program improvement.
This report, prepared by REL West, highlights the differences among California’s counties and regions in their use of underprepared teachers and their expected needs for new teachers in the coming decade as driven by projected student enrollment changes and teacher retirements. The findings show...
This study, prepared by REL West, examines the links between the grade 12 mathematics courses that Nevada students take and the likelihood of students needing to take remedial mathematics courses in Nevada’s public colleges and universities. It analyzes remediation rates by students’...
This study, prepared by REL West, follows a cohort of first-time 9th graders in one large urban school district from 2001/02 to 2005/06 and documents dropout, reenrollment, and graduation rates. A two-page synopsis of the report, What Happens to High School Dropouts Who Reenroll?, is also...