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Intervention Details

Subjects

English Language Arts, Math, Science & STEM

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

N/A

Grades

9, 10

Personnel

General Education Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Principal

Intervention Summary

Boston's charter high schools, which adhere to the No Excuses pedagogy, an approach to urban education that targets student behavior and academic achievement.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on students being proficient or higher in English Language Arts

Positive effect on students being advanced or higher in English Language Arts

Positive effect on students meeting the Competency Determination

Positive effect on students being eligible for the Adams Scholarship

Positive effect on students taking Advanced Placement exams in English

Positive effect on students enrolling in college within 6 months of high school graduation

Positive effect on students enrolling in college within 18 months of high school graduation

Source

Christopher R., W., Joshua D., A., Parag A., P., Sarah R., C. & Susan M., D. (2014). Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice (ED562936). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED562936.pdf.

Data Sample by Population

These charts show the characteristics of the student populations studied. When assessing programs, you may want to prioritize interventions that yielded success in a similar demographic environment as your school or district.

The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.