About 27 percent of 2018 graduates statewide met all CCR graduation requirements, with gaps by socioeconomic status, English learner status, race/ethnicity, and prior achievement¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2025: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The percentage of on-time graduates meeting all CCR requirements rose from 15 percent in 2013/14 to 27 percent in 2017/18, and no student group exceeded 36 percent. → Hanson 2020 q2 i? Gaps favored low-poverty schools (36 percent met all requirements) over high-poverty schools (10 percent), never over current English learner students (28 vs. 16 percent), White over students of color (29 vs. 20–27 percent), and top- over bottom-quartile grade 8 scorers (30 vs. 21 percent). → Hanson 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

Hanson 2020¶

Hanson, H., & Fantz, T. (2020). Implementation of career- and college-ready requirements for high school graduation in Washington (REL 2020–020). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest. https://ies.ed.gov/use-work/resource-library/report/descriptive-study/implementation-career-and-college-ready-requirements-high-school-graduation-washington

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Descriptive analysis of transcript and graduation data for 365,485 students who began grade 9 between 2010/11 and 2014/15, shown in figure 4 for graduating classes 2013/14 through 2017/18. The share meeting all CCR requirements rose from 15 to 27 percent.

"The percentage of on-time graduates who met all the CCR graduation requirements increased steadily with each graduating class, from 15 percent in 2013/14 to 27 percent in 2017/18 (figure 4)."

Hanson 2020 (2)¶

Hanson, H., & Fantz, T. (2020). Implementation of career- and college-ready requirements for high school graduation in Washington (REL 2020–020). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest. https://ies.ed.gov/use-work/resource-library/report/descriptive-study/implementation-career-and-college-ready-requirements-high-school-graduation-washington

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Descriptive analysis of 2017/18 graduate data by student group (figure 5). The report also prints 16 percent of current English learner students versus 28 percent of never English learner students, 29 percent of White students versus 20–27 percent of students of color, and 21 versus 30 percent for bottom- versus top-quartile grade 8 assessment scorers.

"Gaps were most evident by socioeconomic status — 36 percent of students in low- poverty schools met all the requirements compared with 10 percent of students in high-poverty schools. Similarly, 31 percent of students who had never been eligible for the national school lunch program met all the requirements compared with 23 percent of students who had ever been eligible."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Socioeconomic Status — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause
• English-Learner Status — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• School test score averages are strongly related to the income of the families a school serves — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
• Among 2018 on-time graduates, the most frequently unmet CCR requirements were laboratory science (37 percent), fine arts (29 percent), and world languages (23 percent) — related
• English learners are strongly underrepresented in the ESA program: 0.6% of ESA students versus 9.2% of public school students statewide
• Graduation rates improved for all racial, ethnic, and economic groups, but racial and ethnic gaps increased while gender, poverty, and disability gaps declined — related