Chicago Latino students underperform rest-of-state Latino counterparts slightly in third grade but outperform them in eighth-grade reading¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2 · i0 negligible
Currency · newest study 2007 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i0 In reading, Chicago Latino students trail by about three points in third grade and outperform counterparts by four points in eighth grade; in math the six-point third-grade gap falls to under one point. → John Q. Easton 2007

Evidence¶

John Q. Easton 2007¶

John Q. Easton, Stuart Luppescu, Todd Rosenkranz. (2007). 2006 ISAT Reading and Math Scores in Chicago and the Rest of the State. Research Brief, Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/2006-isat-reading-and-math-scores-chicago-and-rest-state

q2 · i0 · associational · r2

Observational analysis of 2006 ISAT scores for Latino students in CPS versus the rest of Illinois; Table 3 prints standardized effect sizes of d = -0.14 (grade 3 reading) rising to d = 0.16 (grade 8 reading), both below d = 0.2 in magnitude.

"In reading, Chicago Latino students in third grade underperform Latinos in the rest of Illinois by about three score points. For eighth-graders, Chicago Latino students outperform their counterparts by four score points."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The gap between Chicago Public Schools students and other Illinois students in ISAT reading is about half as large in eighth grade as in third grade — related
• When compared within racial/ethnic groups, large CPS-versus-rest-of-state gaps disappear, and some CPS groups outperform their counterparts — a broader claim this one bears on
• Chicago White students score as well as or better than rest-of-state White peers in reading, and about the same in math — related