City Limits has an interesting Q&A which include a discussion on indicators and evidence of success with Geoffrey Canada; the CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer interviewed the author regarding “how effective the project [HCZ] has been and if it can be replicated.”
Update: WWC just released findings regarding the HCZ’s middle school:
Students offered enrollment in the school had higher math test scores in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades than the students not offered enrollment. By the time they were tested in eighth grade, the effect size for the math test was 0.55. The WWC interprets this as equivalent to moving a student from the 50th to the 71st percentile.
The study authors found no statistically significant differences in ELA test scores in sixth or seventh grade, but a positive effect was found on the eighth grade ELA test. The effect size was 0.19, which the WWC interprets as equivalent to moving a student from the 50th to the 58th percentile.
