Schools with strong essential supports were more likely to sit in communities with strong social capital, low crime, and low density of abused or neglected children¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2006 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Schools with strong essential supports were more likely to exist in communities with active religious participation, collective efficacy, extensive outside connections, low crime rates, and low density of abused or neglected children. → Sebring 2006 q2 i? Communities with weak social capital, high crime, and higher percentages of abused or neglected children were likely to have schools with weak essential supports. → Sebring 2006

Evidence¶

Sebring 2006¶

Sebring, P. B., Allensworth, E., Bryk, A. S., Easton, J. Q., & Luppescu, S. (2006). The Essential Supports for School Improvement. Research Report, Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/essential-supports-school-improvement

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Community-context analysis using social capital measures from PHDCN surveys, Chicago Police Department crime statistics, and Chapin Hall data on substantiated abuse or neglect cases per school. Strong-support schools clustered in low-crime, low-density communities; the reverse held for weak supports.

"Schools with strong supports also were found more often in communities with a low crime rate, and they were far more likely to exist in school communities with a low density of abused or neglected children."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Do community context and relational trust condition whether a school builds the supports and improves? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 5 narrower claims that bear on it: 5 distinct studies (4 associational, 1 qualitative), q2, 0 of 5 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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