DC public high schools show wide variation in promotion power for college-ready SAT scores, graduation, and college enrollment¶
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q2 i? Promotion power scores varied widely across DC public high schools for college-ready SAT scores, high school graduation, and college enrollment. → Max Gross 2021
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Max Gross 2021¶
Max Gross, Menbere Shiferaw, Jonah Deutsch, Brian Gill. (2021). Using Promotion Power to Identify the Effectiveness of Public High Schools in the District of Columbia. Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, Institute of Education Sciences. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs
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Observational analysis estimating promotion power scores for DC public high schools on three outcomes. The study reports "wide variation in high schools' promotion power" across the three measures; no effect sizes or score distributions are printed in the available text.
"The study found wide variation in high schools' promotion power for college-ready SAT scores, high school graduation, and college enrollment."
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Related Claims¶
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DC public high schools show wide variation in promotion power for college-ready SAT scores, graduation, and college enrollment |
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DC public high schools show wide variation in promotion power for college-ready SAT scores, graduation, and college enrollment |
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2026-10-20 |
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