Resilience refers to the capacity of individuals to prosper despite encountering adverse
circumstances. This paper defines academic resilience as the ability of 15-year-old students …

Many school-level policies, such as school funding formulae and teacher allocation
mechanisms, aim at reducing the influence of students' low socio-economic condition on …

This paper reports preliminary survey findings of Western Australian and South Australian
teacher perceptions of the impact of NAPLAN on curriculum and pedagogy in their …

How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities
remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In …

With the enactment of standards-based accountability in education, high-stakes tests have
become the dominant method for measuring school effectiveness and student achievement …

Drawing from empirically based and theoretical literature in the field, this review examines
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and the accountability provisions found in Title One of the …

“A remarkable new book.... Wise and energetic advocates such as Kahlenberg and Potter
can take the charter movement in new and useful directions.”—The Washington Post Moving …

In the existent literature, little attention has been paid to the characteristics of the schools
attended by the “resilient” students, ie those that, despite their socioeconomic background …

Increases in family income inequality in the United States have translated into widening
gaps in educational achievement and attainments between children from low-and high …

Background Interest among social scientists in peer influences has grown with recent reseg-
regation of the nation's schools and court decisions that limit the ability of school districts to …