Urban violence and student performance

Urban violence and student performance
A new study published in Sociology of Education finds that children who attend school with many students from violent neighborhoods can earn significantly lower test scores than peers with classmates from safer areas. The lead author of the study was sociologist Julia Burdick-Will from our own Johns Hopkins University.
 
Burdick-Will studied students who attended Chicago Public Schools from 2002 to 2010, analyzing administrative data from the school system, crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department, and school surveys from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research. She looked at five cohorts of students who were freshmen between the fall of 2002 and 2006, and followed each student for up to four years. Results indicated that in schools where more students have a high exposure to violence, their classmates score as much as 10 percent lower on annual standardized math and reading tests.
 
According to the report, the study shows that when students experience higher levels of neighborhood violence, the whole school reports feeling less safe, having more disciplinary problems, and feeling less trust in their teachers.

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