Residential mobility explains 55-61 percent of the school-year race gap in mobility, school average achievement an additional 16 percent, and access to school choice options increasingly explains the summer gap¶
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q2 i? Residential mobility and schools' average achievement levels explain most of the school-year mobility gap between African American and white and Asian students; choice access variables explain a growing share of the summer gap. → Marisa de la Torre 2009
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Marisa de la Torre 2009¶
Marisa de la Torre, Julia Gwynne. (2009). Changing Schools: A Look at Student Mobility Trends in Chicago Public Schools Since 1995. Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/changing-schools-look-student-mobility-trends-chicago-public-schools-1995
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Decomposition analysis of the race gap in Chapter 5 (Appendix C modeling). The report states residential mobility explains "between 55 and 61 percent" of the school-year gap, school achievement an additional 16 percent, and choice-access variables rose from 7 percent of the summer gap in 2000 to almost 12 percent by 2006.
"During the school year, residential mobility explains between 55 and 61 percent of the mobility gap that emerged since 2000 between African American and white and Asian students."
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Related Claims¶
- African American students are the most mobile group of CPS students, and the gap between them and other students widened after 2000-01, especially at the elementary level — related
- Residential mobility is closely associated with elementary school transfers in CPS, with nearly 80 percent of mid-year within-district transfers accompanied by a residential move — related
- Elementary student mobility in CPS is predominantly a within-district phenomenon, with CPS-to-CPS transfers accounting for 50-60 percent of school-year transfers and two-thirds of summer transfers — related
- School closings, new school openings, CHA demolitions, and NCLB transfers each affected fewer than 1 percent of CPS students per year, though receiving schools saw summer in-mobility rise by almost 13 percentage points — related
- Elementary student mobility in CPS decreased between 1995 and 2007, with school-year stability rising from 87.9 to 91.2 percent and school-year in-mobility falling from 11.4 to 7.1 percent — related
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Residential mobility explains 55-61 percent of the school-year race gap in mobility, school average achievement an additional 16 percent, and access to school choice options increasingly explains the summer gap |
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Residential mobility explains 55-61 percent of the school-year race gap in mobility, school average achievement an additional 16 percent, and access to school choice options increasingly explains the summer gap |
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