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Student Continuity And Achievement Clustering In Hartford Public Schools, 2008-2012: A Preliminary Data Report, Diane Zannoni, Jack Dougherty, Ben Rudy, Evan Sternberg
Student Continuity And Achievement Clustering In Hartford Public Schools, 2008-2012: A Preliminary Data Report, Diane Zannoni, Jack Dougherty, Ben Rudy, Evan Sternberg
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Based on four years of student-level achievement and demographic data provided by the Hartford Public Schools (HPS), our quantitative analysis sought to answer two questions: (1) Continuity: Who stays and leaves the HPS dataset, and are these behaviors associated with student characteristics, school composition, or neighborhood demographics? (2) Clustering: Are high-achieving students widely distributed across the district, or are they more likely to be clustered with peers who have similar characteristics, or attend similar schools, or reside in similar neighborhoods? By analyzing statistically significant patterns among over 33,000 Hartford-resident HPS students in grades 3 to 8 from 2008-09 to 2011-12, …