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Preparing students in the middle grades to succeed in high school: Findings from phase IV of the Citizen Schools evaluation

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This report presents analyses that compare the high school selection, school engagement (i.e., school attendance and suspension), and achievement (i.e., course grades, standardized test scores, and promotion to the next grade) of former 8th Grade Academy participants with the outcomes of a matched comparison group of nonparticipants. The specific measures included in the 5 analyses are: quality of high school in which the student enrolled; attendance and suspension rates; course grades in English and mathematics in ninth and tenth grades; on-time promotion to tenth grade; and tenth-grade scores on the state tests (i.e., MCAS tests in English Language Arts and mathematics, which students are required to pass in order to graduate from public high school) in those same subject areas. These findings are reported for the sample of participants overall and separately by program exposure levels, except for the tenth-grade analyses where sample sizes were too small to reliably report the data by exposure levels.  (author abstract)

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Reports & Papers
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Country:
United States
State(s)/Territories/Tribal Nation(s):
Massachusetts

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