Sixty percent of the highest-poverty schools also have above-average student growth¶
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q2 i? Sixty percent of schools with the highest percentages of students from impoverished communities have above-average levels of student growth, and a slightly larger percentage of high-poverty than wealthy-community schools show growth beyond the 82nd percentile. → Andy Hegedus 2018
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Andy Hegedus 2018¶
Andy Hegedus, Ed.D. (2018). Evaluating the Relationships between Poverty and School Performance. NWEA Research Report. https://www.nwea.org/research-data-galleries/poverty-and-school-performance
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Stated in the study's Conclusions section, summarizing the growth-versus-poverty analyses of the MAP Growth school sample. The article reports "Sixty percent of schools with the highest percentages of students from impoverished communities also have above-average levels of student growth" and that a slightly larger percentage of high-poverty schools create growth beyond the 82nd percentile than schools from wealthy communities.
"Sixty percent of schools with the highest percentages of students from impoverished communities also have above-average levels of student growth."
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Related Claims¶
- Lowest-income schools show more variable growth than highest-income schools, with more schools both below the 50th and above the 82nd growth percentile — related
- Schools with lower percentages of Proficient and Distinguished observation ratings tend to be higher-poverty schools — related
- Male BIPOC students and BIPOC students in high-poverty schools made the lowest percentage of typical learning gains during the pandemic — reports the opposite
- District G shows the opposite pattern: highest-poverty elementary schools were most likely to have highest-performing teachers — related
- High-poverty schools' high achievers had roughly even odds of above-average growth, and 75th-percentile growth would be needed to close the readiness gap — related
- Average academic growth of high achievers was nearly equivalent in wealthy and poor schools — related
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Sixty percent of the highest-poverty schools also have above-average student growth |
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Sixty percent of the highest-poverty schools also have above-average student growth |
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