Evidence on RJ's impact on academic outcomes is limited and mixed, with graduation-rate gains in one study and no GPA change in another¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r2–r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? One Oakland study reported cumulative graduation rates rose 60 percent in RJ schools versus 7 percent in non-RJ schools over three years, while another study found no significant GPA change for RJ participants. → Fronius 2016 q2 i? Norris (2009) found no significant change in grade point average between RJ participants and non-participants. → Fronius 2016 (2)

Evidence¶

Fronius 2016¶

Fronius, Persson, Guckenburg, Hurley, & Petrosino. (2016). Restorative Justice in U.S. Schools: A Research Review. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED596786

q2 · i? · review · r3

Narrative review reporting Jain et al. (2014) graduation-rate comparison of RJ versus non-RJ high schools: "cumulative graduation rates rose 60 percent in RJ schools compared to just 7 percent in non-RJ schools" over three post-implementation years.

"They found that — over the course of three years post-implementation — cumulative graduation rates rose 60 percent in RJ schools compared to just 7 percent in non-RJ schools."

Fronius 2016 (2)¶

Fronius, Persson, Guckenburg, Hurley, & Petrosino. (2016). Restorative Justice in U.S. Schools: A Research Review. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED596786

q2 · i? · review · r2

Narrative review reporting a null finding from Norris (2009): "no significant change in grade point average between RJ participants and non-participants"; equivalence was not tested. McMorris et al. (2013) found only a slight GPA increase for students who remained enrolled.

"Norris (2009) reports no significant change in grade point average between RJ participants and non-participants."

Discussion¶

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