FutureEd Reading List

There are various approaches to measuring the journey students make through the K-12 system, to college, and through college. The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research released three reports in October that focus on using data to track trends in students' educational attainment in Chicago Public Schools (CPS).

Alex Seeskin, Jenny Nagaoka, and Shelby Mahaffie begin in middle and high School by examining how CPS students’ grades declined during the transition to high school. Their report titled Hidden Risk: Changes in GPA across the Transition to High School shows that on average, students with eighth-grade core GPAs higher than 3.5 had about one-half a point lower core grades in ninth grade (from an A/A- to a B+)...