Lisa Dragoset

This report assesses the first decade of Promise Neighborhoods and the 25 grantees that received their awards between 2011 and 2018. The report describes these grantees and their neighborhoods and assesses how grantees sought to address neighborhood needs and navigate potential implementation challenges. For grantees that received awards in 2011 and 2012, the report also examines whether children living in Promise Neighborhoods experienced changes in educational outcomes.

The REL conducted a study for the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) to investigate the feasibility of constructing a school-level measure of students' academic growth from kindergarten to grade 3, and to assess the validity and precision of that measure. To support its understanding and use of the measure, the REL worked with MSDE to create this memo describing the study methodology so that MSDE can build its analytical capacity to estimate K-3 student-level growth measures for fu...

The purpose of this report is to investigate the feasibility of constructing a school-level measure of students' academic growth from kindergarten to grade 3, and to assess the validity and precision of that measure. The study measured schoolwide student growth for reading and math using student growth percentiles based on Maryland's 2014/15 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) and the 2017/18 grade 3 Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment. To as...