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Queens University in Charlotte conducted a study about college performance among the State's urban school district graduates. The Study included Wake, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Forsyth and Durham Counties. The study was based on student performance/graduation rates at UNC system campuses. Wake came out on top. See these links for details. WakeEd - Wake tops other urban districts in UNC system performance | newsobserver.com blogs
Wake's grads do best in college - Local & State - News & Observer (http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1533167.html - broken link)
It would be more useful if they controlled for things like family income, family education, etc (look at the demographics of the counties they are comparing and you'll see that Wake County is more affluent, less diverse, etc.). Large parts of Wake County are far from urban. Attributing the "success" of Wake County students to the diversity policy is a stretch (i.e., there are other varibles that may explain there success).
It would be more useful if they controlled for things like family income, family education, etc (look at the demographics of the counties they are comparing and you'll see that Wake County is more affluent, less diverse, etc.). Large parts of Wake County are far from urban. Attributing the "success" of Wake County students to the diversity policy is a stretch (i.e., there are other varibles that may explain there success).
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It would be more useful if they controlled for things like family income, family education, etc (look at the demographics of the counties they are comparing and you'll see that Wake County is more affluent, less diverse, etc.). Large parts of Wake County are far from urban. Attributing the "success" of Wake County students to the diversity policy is a stretch (i.e., there are other varibles that may explain there success).
I agree with you. It would be good if there were more data points. Nonetheless, it's remarkable that the largest system in the state performs so well in comparison to the other large systems in the state.
Regarding the systems being "urban", that's probably a poor choice of words on the part of Queens Univ. or the reporting of the study. What they should have said is "county wide systems built around the largest cities in the state" or something like that.
•A higher percentage of Wake County students actually enrolled in one of the UNC
schools than did students from CMS, Durham, Guilford, and Forsyth Counties.
Out of those who applied, the percentage of those accepted is approximately equal among
these urban districts (between 80% and 85%). The percentage of those accepted who
enrolled was quite high for all districts (between 70% and 80%). However, because a larger
percentage of students from Wake County applied for admissions, the number of all their
high school graduates who enrolled was considerably higher than that of the other urban
districts.
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• Even though the gap may be closing somewhat, CMS students continue to lag behind
Wake County students in performance in the UNC system.
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