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There's no such thing as a &quot;definitive&quot; study.  This is the social science field; they're currently in the midst of a replication crisis because a large portion of the studies they've done can't be replicated.  Do researchers study the effects of this integration on the higher performing students?  Most studies I've read don't, and from what I've seen education researchers don't really care.  The government tried something like this on a large scale (moving to opportunity) and there were no educational gains.  In fact, almost all educational interventions show no lasting gains.

Honestly, if this integration was a magic bullet then the problem would have been solved by now.  What are you going to suggest we do once this also fails?

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Please actually read the study before you dismiss it: https://tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-Schwartz.pdf[/quote]

Wow, I read it again.  It's even worse than I remember.  It's clear that they took a look at the the data and chose a break point (20%) that would kind of support their agenda.  This wasn't a study, this was a data trolling expedition to find results they liked.  Even that wasn't particularly successful.  From the paper: &quot;In math, the cumulative positive effect of attending a green zone school by the end of elementary school (nine points, p&lt;0.12) was about the same as that of attending the lowest-poverty elementary schools (eight points, p&lt;0.05). However, in reading, the cumulative effect of attending a green zone school (eight points, p &lt;0.12 level) was larger than attending the lowest-poverty schools (five points, p&lt;0.20 level). &quot;

They're touting results with p-values of .2.
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