Reshaping rural schools in the Northwest Region: Lessons from federal School Improvement Grant implementation

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Title: Reshaping rural schools in the Northwest Region: Lessons from federal School Improvement Grant implementation

Description: A presentation sharing highlights from the REL Central Applied Research Methods paper, Decision Points and Considerations for Identifying Rural Districts That Have Closed Student Achievement Gaps (Culbertson & Billig, 2016). Considerations include: 1) Which subgroups should be examined? 2) What counts as rural? 3) Which measures should be used? 4) Which additional criteria should be considered? 5) How should reductions in achievement gaps be measured?, and 6) How should measures be aggregated to create a single ranking of districts?

Publish Date: September 2016.

Source: REL Central

Reshaping rural schools in the Northwest Region: Lessons from federal School Improvement Grant implementation