After two years, fewer graduates attended career academies and neighborhood high schools and more attended charter schools; these shifts were no different from comparison schools¶

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q2 i? Eighth-grade graduates' enrollment shifted away from career academies and neighborhood high schools toward charter schools, but the changes were no different from comparison groups. → Cowhy 2017

Evidence¶

Cowhy 2017¶

Cowhy, J.R. & de la Torre, M. (2017). The Success Project: The Implementation and Early Outcomes of a Middle Grade Program. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/success-project-implementation-and-early-outcomes-middle-grade-program

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Descriptive comparison of high school enrollment for Success school graduates against prior cohorts and comparison groups of schools. The report states "These changes were no different from what was observed for graduates of the comparison groups of schools we included in our analyses."

"Fewer eighth -grade graduates attended career academies and neighborhood high schools and more attended charter high schools after two years of Success Project implementation."

Discussion¶

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