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Title:  First-Graders' Achievement in Top and Bottom Schools
Description: Most people believe that schools differ widely from one another in their students' achievement, but little is known about the magnitude of these differences, particularly at the early grades of schooling. This issue brief describes the magnitude of reading and mathematics differences in top and bottom schools by using four different methods.
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Cover Date: January 1998
Web Release: January 3, 1998
Print Release: January 3, 1998
Publication #: NCES 98041
General Ordering Information
Center/Program: NCES
Authors: John Ralph and Mary Frase (NCES); James Crouse (University of Delaware), and William Thompson (ABT Associates, Inc.)
Type of Product: Issue Brief
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Questions: For questions about the content of this Issue Brief, please contact:
John H. Ralph.
 
 
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