“In an effort to improve educational outcomes of urban students, numerous experiments have been launched over the years. The Metco program, for example, was established as a voluntary racial-integration scheme that would bus students from Boston to suburban public schools (to ‘provide enhanced educational opportunities for participating students, to reduce the racial isolation of suburban school districts, and to reduce segregation in city schools’). It remains one of the country’s longest-running urban-education experiments, celebrating its 56th birthday in 2012.”
“How Peers Affect Student Performance,” an article in the current issue of Communities & Banking, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, examines the idea that other students in a child’s school, grade, and classroom directly affect his or her academic performance.
To access the article, written by Kevin Todd, a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, please visit:
FRB: Communities & Banking: How Peers Affect Student Performance (Fall 2012)
To access the complete issue, please visit:
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Communities & Banking (Fall 2012)
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