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Contact information:
Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams) Cincinnati
1 W 4th St STE 405
Cincinnati OH 45202
Website:
http://www.projectgradusa.org
/evaluation.jsp?region=25
Mission/Goals: Project Grad aims to ensure a quality
education for low-income and disadvantaged youth so that they graduate
high school and are prepared to enter institutions of higher learning. It
focuses on improving academic performance and classroom behavior, reducing
dropout rates and increasing college enrollment rates.
Notes: Project GRAD uses a feeder pattern, focusing on all three
levels of school.
Source(s):
www.guidestar.org;
www.projectgradusa.org |
2,983 students at 4 elementary schools and 1 high school in Western Hills,
Cincinnati |
grades K-16 |
Please click here for more information on this evaluation.
Type of Evaluation: Quasi-experimental
Note: MDRC conducted one preliminary evaluation and is completing
another evaluation. Various evaluations have also been conducted by
different cities with Project GRAD programs. Cincinnati is not one of the
cities included in the national evaluation but has conducted some of its
own evaluations, which are also included below.
Objective: To see how Project GRAD was implemented, how it
influenced students and schools, and what the outcomes would have been
without Project GRAD.
Impact/Outcome Findings: The graduation rate at Davis High School
in Houston was 64.3% in 2003, compared with an average of 38.7% among 4
comparison schools. Within Davis HS, the graduation rate increased from
44.8% in 1997 to 64.3% in 2003. Davis GRAD scholars had a graduation rate
of 46% compared with the national average among low income students of
27%. Two to five times the number of students before the program compared
with after entered college. In Atlanta, the percentage of fourth graders
in GRAD schools performing at proficient levels in math increased by 16%
compared with 9.6% in comparable schools. Similarly, reading proficiency
scores increased 9% compared with 3.3%. In a GRAD high school in
Cincinnati, the percent of students performing at a proficient level on
Ohio proficiency tests increased between 2002 and 2004 from 49% to 90% in
writing, from 43% to 90% in reading, 19% to 74.2% in math, 34% to 94.2% in
citizenship, from 14% to 85.8% in science. In the first year of Project
GRAD in Newark, the number of discipline referrals dropped from 3.1 in
1997-98 to 1.8 in the 1998-99, a reduction of about 40 percent. Another
survey showed a drop from 90 a month to 47 a month. In Newark, proficiency
scores improved in third grade after one year of Project GRAD but not in
2nd, 9th and 10th grades.
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