Graduation rates differ largely across Chicago schools, with many new charter and magnet schools and several neighborhood high schools showing exceptionally high rates beyond what incoming freshman characteristics would predict¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2005 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2008: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? There are large differences in graduation rates across schools in Chicago. → Allensworth 2005 q2 i? Many new charter and magnet schools and several neighborhood high schools show exceptionally high graduation rates beyond what would be expected from incoming freshman characteristics. → Allensworth 2005 (2)

Evidence¶

Allensworth 2005¶

Allensworth, E. (2005). Graduation and Dropout Trends in Chicago: A look at cohorts of students from 1991 through 2004, Report Highlights. Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/graduation-and-dropout-trends-chicago-look-cohorts-students-1991-2004

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School-by-school comparisons of graduation rates using freshman-cohort methods, which the report says allow comparison of different high schools. The brief reports "large differences in graduation rates across schools"; no school-level statistics are printed in the brief.

"There are large differences in graduation rates across schools in Chicago. Many of the new charter and magnet schools, as well as several neighborhood high schools, show exceptionally high graduation rates, beyond what would be expected based on the charac- teristics of their incoming freshman."

Allensworth 2005 (2)¶

Allensworth, E. (2005). Graduation and Dropout Trends in Chicago: A look at cohorts of students from 1991 through 2004, Report Highlights. Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/graduation-and-dropout-trends-chicago-look-cohorts-students-1991-2004

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School-by-school comparisons in the brief name charter, magnet, and neighborhood high schools as showing rates "beyond what would be expected" from incoming freshman characteristics; no per-school numbers are printed in the brief.

"Many of the new charter and magnet schools, as well as several neighborhood high schools, show exceptionally high graduation rates, beyond what would be expected based on the charac- teristics of their incoming freshman."

Discussion¶

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