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The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes : A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program
Guryan, Jonathan - 2020
In response to budget problems, many urban school systems reduced resources for getting students to come to school … controlled trial with C&C in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to students in grades 1-8. Program participation … decreased absences in grades 5-7 by 4.2 days, or 22.9 percent, but with no detectable effects on students in grades 1-4. We also …
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Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Vigdor, Jacob - 2007
The mid-1980s witnessed breaks in two important trends related to race and schooling. School segregation, which had been declining, began a period of relative stasis. Black-white test score gaps, which had also been declining, also stagnated. The notion that these two phenomena may be related is...
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