Comprehensive community school interventions show positive impacts on student outcomes including attendance, achievement, graduation, and reduced achievement gaps¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Comprehensive community school interventions across many locations are associated with improvements in attendance, academic achievement, high school graduation rates, and reduced racial and economic achievement gaps. → Maier 2017

Evidence¶

Maier 2017¶

Maier, A., Daniel, J., Oakes, J., & Lam, L. (2017). Community schools as an effective school improvement strategy: A review of the evidence. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/community-schools-effective-school-improvement-report

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The report's synthesis of 24 comprehensive community school evaluations, including 3 research syntheses, concludes with this summary finding. The review reports that programs in many different locations showed improvements, quoting that they show improvements in student outcomes across attendance, achievement, and graduation. No pooled effect size is printed.

"Comprehensive community school interventions have a positive impact, with programs in many different locations showing improvements in student outcomes, including attendance, academic achievement, high school graduation rates, and reduced racial and economic achievement gaps."

Discussion¶

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