High schools that underwent reform showed no significant improvement in absence rates or ninth-grade on-track rates compared with matched schools¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? On average, reformed high schools showed no significant improvements in ninth-grade on-track rates or absence rates relative to matched comparison schools. → de la Torre 2013 q3 i? Absence rates dropped in the first year after reform relative to matched schools, but the improvement was not sustained over time. → de la Torre 2013 (2)

Evidence¶

de la Torre 2013¶

de la Torre, M., Allensworth, E., Jagesic, S., Sebastian, J., & Salmonowicz, M.; with Meyers, C., & Gerdeman, R. D. (2013). Turning Around Low-Performing Schools in Chicago. University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/turning-around-low-performing-schools-chicago-full-report

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Difference-in-difference analysis of high schools undergoing reform versus matched comparison schools, using absence rates (standardized within year and grade) and ninth-grade on-track indicators. The report finds no significant improvements on either early-warning indicator; equivalence was not tested.

"On average, there were no significant improvements in ninth grade on-track rates and absence rates among the schools that went through intervention."

de la Torre 2013 (2)¶

de la Torre, M., Allensworth, E., Jagesic, S., Sebastian, J., & Salmonowicz, M.; with Meyers, C., & Gerdeman, R. D. (2013). Turning Around Low-Performing Schools in Chicago. University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/turning-around-low-performing-schools-chicago-full-report

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First-year post-intervention absence trends for reformed high schools relative to matched schools show an initial decline that did not persist in later years. No effect size is printed for this pattern.

"There was a drop in absence rates in the first year after reform compared to matched schools, but the improvement was not sustained over time."

Discussion¶

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