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Intervention Details

Subjects

English Language Arts, Math

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

N/A

Grades

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Personnel

Administrator, General Education Teacher, Principal

Intervention Summary

School Closure Policy

Statistical Finding Summary

Negative effect on reading and math achievement during the announcement year

No effect on reading and math achievement one year after school closing

No effect on reading and math achievement two and three years after school closing

Positive effect on achievement for students who enrolled in top-performing schools

Positive effect on achievement for students who experienced high levels of teacher support

No effect on the percentage of students on-track to graduate at the end of their freshmen year

Negative effect on summer school enrollment immediately after school closing

Positive effect on school mobility during the academic year after school closing

Source

Julia, G. & Marisa, d. l. T. (2009). When Schools Close: Effects on Displaced Students in Chicago Public Schools. Research Report (ED510792). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED510792.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.