{"id":415,"date":"2012-11-13T13:57:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cli-research\/?page_id=415"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:08:32","slug":"rudy-sternberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cli-research\/fellows-partnerships\/fellows-2012-13\/rudy-sternberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Rudy &amp; Evan Sternberg, CLI Fellows 2012-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rudy &#8217;13 (left) and Evan Sternberg &#8217;13 (right) are economics majors who are analyzing patterns among higher-achieving students in Hartford Public Schools, in partnership with a local education foundation, <a title=\"AchieveHartford\" href=\"http:\/\/achievehartford.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Achieve Hartford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_545\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cli-research\/fellows-2012-13\/rudy-sternberg\/ruby-sternberg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-545\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cli-research\/files\/2012\/11\/ruby-sternberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cli-research\/files\/2012\/11\/ruby-sternberg.jpg 604w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cli-research\/files\/2012\/11\/ruby-sternberg-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Rudy and Evan Sternberg plan the visuals for their final poster.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Who Stays? Who Leaves?<\/strong> An Analysis of Higher-Achieving Hartford Public School Students<\/p>\n<p>On December 11th we presented our final poster of results to the Trinity community, friends and family, and most importantly our community partner. \u00a0Achieve Hartford! was fascinated by some of the results that came about from our project &#8220;Who Stays? Who Leaves?&#8221; -an analysis of achievement and trajectory in the Hartford Public School system.<\/p>\n<p>This project seeks to follow Hartford students through the Hartford Public Schools (HPS). Our analysis focuses on two simple questions:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022Among the Hartford residents attending HPS, what are the characteristics of the high-achieving students compared to the students who are not high-achieving?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022Among Hartford residents attending HPS, what are the characteristics of those who leave compared to those who stay?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our study includes all Hartford residents grades 3 through 8 from 2008\/09 to 2011\/12. We conclude that, compared to those students who stay, students who leave the HPS system have different school\/resident zones, ethnicities, grade levels, and attend schools that had comparable test score rankings. \u00a0However, high-achievement does not distinguish those who leave from those who stay.<\/p>\n<p>This last sentence really brings forth a crucial finding within our research. \u00a0The acting assumption around Hartford is that all of the smart students are leaving the area. However, we found that the\u00a0achievement\u00a0levels of students are statistically insignificant when determining if a student stays or leaves. \u00a0In the following image, you can see that of the 6264 students in our data set in 2008\/09, 15.5% of them were high achievers, however of the 916 students who left, 14.62% were high achievers and of the remaining 5348 students who stayed, 15.35% were high achievers. \u00a0The percentage of high achievers that stay and leave remain similar across all four years, which shows that high\u00a0achievement\u00a0is insignificant in determining if a student leaves the Hartford Public School system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cli-research\/?attachment_id=837\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cli-research\/files\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-19-at-12.04.54-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"591\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about their project:<br \/>\n[catlist name=rudy-sternberg orderby=date order=asc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rudy &#8217;13 (left) and Evan Sternberg &#8217;13 (right) are economics majors who are analyzing patterns among higher-achieving students in Hartford Public Schools, in partnership with a local education foundation, Achieve Hartford. 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