Academic Support students, who attended regularly but earned below a 3.0 GPA, made up nearly 40 percent of students and saw academic struggles persist beyond the middle grades¶
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q2 i? Only 17 percent of Academic Support students earned a 3.0 or higher at high school graduation and only 20 percent enrolled in four-year colleges. → Seeskin 2022
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Seeskin 2022¶
Seeskin, A., Massion, T., and Usher, A. (2022). Elementary on-track: Elementary school students' grades, attendance, and future outcomes. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://toandthrough.uchicago.edu/middle-grades-network-improvement-community
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Observational analysis of the 2010-11 cohort; the Academic Support category sample for Figure 5 consisted of 47,669 students (51 percent of the sample used across Figures 4-7). The report notes these students "came to school regularly yet were still not earning a 3.0 GPA."
"These students' academic struggles persisted beyond the middle grades, with only 17 percent earning a 3.0 at high school graduation and 20 percent enrolling in four-year colleges ( see Figure 5 )."
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Related Claims¶
- Students with higher eighth-grade achievement saw larger core GPA declines across the transition to high school — related
- Most Chicago freshmen fail at least one course, miss substantial school, or earn below a C average in their first year — related
- Attendance Support students maintained a 3.0 GPA despite low attendance but graduated high school at 71 percent, below the district average, and fewer than half attended college — related
- Students in higher CPS EOT categories had progressively higher rates of high school graduation and college enrollment — related
- Elementary students with 90%+ attendance and GPA 3.0+ in grades 3-8 were more likely to graduate high school with a 3.0+ GPA than peers in other EOT categories — related
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Academic Support students, who attended regularly but earned below a 3.0 GPA, made up nearly 40 percent of students and saw academic struggles persist beyond the middle grades |
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Academic Support students, who attended regularly but earned below a 3.0 GPA, made up nearly 40 percent of students and saw academic struggles persist beyond the middle grades |
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