Green Dot Public Schools

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Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description

A nonprofit charter-school programme and school-design model run by Green Dot Public Schools that creates small community high schools organized around teacher support, autonomous leadership, college preparation, comprehensive student services, family engagement, and replicability.

Components

Claims

• Green Dot Public Schools raise school attendance in the fourth year of high school, with no detectable effect on attendance in Year 1 for Cohort 3 (mixed evidence) [+W]
• Green Dot Public Schools improve English language arts achievement in the first year of high school for the 2009–10 cohort, with no significant effects on later ELA measures (mixed evidence) [+W]
• Attending Green Dot Public Schools produces statistically significant positive effects on high school mathematics achievement (potentially positive effects rating, small extent of evidence) [+W]
• Green Dot Public Schools increase high school graduation and college-preparatory (A-G) graduation for students entering ninth grade (potentially positive effects rating) [+W]

Related Products and Programmes

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Key Sources

• Green Dot Public Schools. (2018). WWC Intervention Report: Green Dot Public Schools, Charter Schools. What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/686

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