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Download full textRoderick, Melissa; Nagaoka, Jenny; Bacon, Jen; Easton, John Q. – 2000
This report examines the performance of students facing the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy to end social promotion in 1999. As the third group to face CPS promotional test cutoffs, they received more programmatic support than previous students. An afterschool program was expanded considerably, and many more at-risk students were required to…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Standards, After School Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Easton, John Q.; Bennett, Albert – 1989
This study found major differences among types of Chicago (Illinois) elementary schools in the amount and time that sixth grade students spent on homework, and that differences were related to the income level and prior student achievement in those schools. Ten magnet schools, 10 integrated schools and 10 primarily minority schools were chosen for…
Descriptors: Achievement, Desegregation Effects, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
