John R. Novak
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John R. Novak
Former Administrator of Research Systems, Office of Research, Planning, Evaluation,
Long Beach Unified School District
John R. Novak was the administrator of research systems in the Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation at the Long Beach Unified School District, where he focused on database management. Novak has also been a recurrent lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Publications by John R. Novak
Similar Test Scores, but Different Students, Bring Federal Sanctions
California schools with more demographic subgroups are less likely to meet their growth targets and face federal sanctions, even when students have similar average test scores. Schools with many low-income Latino students are particularly unlikely…