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What Works Clearinghouse Quick Review: "Philadelphia's Renaissance Schools Initiative: 18 Month Interim Report"
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
The study examined the effectiveness of Philadelphia's Renaissance Schools Initiative after one year of implementation. The Renaissance Schools Initiative, which began in the 2010-11 school year, aimed at improving low-performing schools by providing new management, additional resources, and new educational strategies. The study reported that…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Low Achievement
The Unique and Combined Effects of Homelessness and School Mobility on the Educational Outcomes of Young Children
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Fantuzzo, John W.; LeBoeuf, Whitney A.; Chen, Chin-Chih; Rouse, Heather L.; Culhane, Dennis P. – Educational Researcher, 2012
This study examined the unique and combined associations of homelessness and school mobility with educational well-being indicators, as well as the mediating effect of absenteeism, for an entire cohort of third-grade students in Philadelphia. Using integrated archival administrative data from the public school district and the municipal Office of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Student Mobility, Young Children, Well Being
Summer Learning Programs Yield Key Lessons for Districts and Policymakers
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Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan – State Education Standard, 2015
The Wallace Foundation is funding a multiyear demonstration project to determine whether voluntary, district summer learning programs can stem summer learning loss for low-income students. Six districts--Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (Florida), Pittsburgh, and Rochester, New York--were selected for the demonstration project and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
An Investigation of the Relations between School Concentrations of Student Risk Factors and Student Educational Well-Being
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Fantuzzo, John W.; LeBoeuf, Whitney A.; Rouse, Heather L. – Educational Researcher, 2014
This study investigated the unique relations between school concentrations of student risk factors and measures of reading, mathematics, and attendance. It used an integrated administrative data system to create a combined data set of risks (i.e., birth risks, teen mother, low maternal education, homelessness, maltreatment, and lead exposure) for…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Well Being, Correlation, Early Parenthood
Understanding the Institutional-Level Factors of Urban School Quality
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Gottfried, Michael A. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: This article addresses which school-level factors contribute to school quality. Previous research has focused on assessing the effects of school-level variables on student-level quality (e.g., achievement). However, the field has been limited in not evaluating the effects of school-level factors directly on measured…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement, Special Education, Behavior Problems
Excused versus Unexcused: How Student Absences in Elementary School Affect Academic Achievement
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Gottfried, Michael A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
The literature on school absences has focused predominantly on the reasons for student truancy, or it has assessed only aggregate student absences in their effect on achievement. However, this study brings forth a new issue: the relationship between types of absences--excused versus unexcused--and school performance. With a quantitative model of…
Descriptors: Truancy, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Tests, Attendance Patterns