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Differentiated Effects of Community Schooling on Cognitive and Social-Emotional Learning Outcomes
School Effectiveness and School Improvement
Short Title: School Effectiveness and School Improvement
Format: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2015/01/01/
Pages: 354 - 381
Sources ID: 90086
Notes: Accession Number: EJ1067983; Acquisition Information: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals; Language: English; Education Level: Elementary EducationSecondary Education; Reference Count: 48; Journal Code: APR2018; Level of Availability: Not available from ERIC; Publication Type: Academic Journal; Publication Type: Report; Entry Date: 2015
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Community schools are becoming increasingly popular. They aim to enhance children's educational performance by offering extended educational and social services. As community schools mainly focus on disadvantaged children, this study evaluates the effects of community schooling on the educational outcomes of these pupils. We focus on care pupils and pupils whose parents have a low educational attainment. We hypothesize that community schools are particularly beneficial to care pupils, namely, pupils with additional educational needs, and for pupils with parents with lower levels of educational attainment. Our analyses show that both pupil groups benefit in terms of reduced underachievement. The duration of community school attendance as such does not affect cognitive outcomes, but it proves beneficial to the educational achievement of both groups when the community school subsidy is taken into account as well. We show that different community school activities have partly contrary effects on care pupils and non-care pupils.