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Educational Opportunity in Early and Middle Childhood: Using Full Population Administrative Data to Study Variation by Place and Age

Sean F. Reardon
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2019, 5 (2) 40-68; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.03
Sean F. Reardon
aEndowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
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    Stylized Associations Between Early and Middle Childhood Opportunity and Between Early and Middle Childhood Educational Outcomes

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    Average Third-Grade Test Scores (Math and Reading Averaged), 2009–2015

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    Average Test Score Growth Rates (Math and Reading Averaged), 2009–2015

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    Achievement Growth Rates by Grade-Three Achievement

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    Achievement Growth Rates by Grade-Three Achievement, All Students, With Grade-Eight Achievement Isobars

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    Achievement Growth Rates by Grade-Three Achievement, Hundred Largest School Districts

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    Achievement Patterns and Socioeconomic Status

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    Growth Rates and Grade-Three Achievement, by District SES Quartile

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    Levels and Growth for Poor and Nonpoor Students

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    Growth Rates and Grade-Three Achievement by Subgroup

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    Grade-Three Growth Correlation as a Function of Grade-Eight/Grade-Three SD Ratio, Theoretical and Observed

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: 5 (2)
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Educational Opportunity in Early and Middle Childhood: Using Full Population Administrative Data to Study Variation by Place and Age
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Mar 2019, 5 (2) 40-68; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.03
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