Under the auspices of CREATE, UCSD evaluates the effectiveness of its partnerships, model school and outreach efforts and is targeting faculty research efforts in educational areas such as the achievement of high academic standards, the best practices for educating underrepresented students, and closing the achievement gap among socioeconomically diverse students. These research efforts are focused on the educational problems addressed by CREATE.

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• UCSD Admissions Statistics
  

Publications

 

• College Enrollment and Persistence of Preuss Alumni (PDF)
  Bestsy Strick
  November 2009
  
• Grade Discrepancies at the Preuss School: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation (PDF)
  Hugh Mehan, Julian R. Betts, and Peter Gourevitch
  August 2008
  
• The Performance of Preuss School Students in AP Courses and on AP Exams (PDF)
  Julian R. Betts and Hugh Mehan
  February 2008
  
• Whole-School Detracking: A Strategy for Equity and Excellence (PDF)
  Date: 2006
  
• WHEN REFORMS TRAVEL: THE SEQUEL (DOC)
  Hugh Mehan, Lea Hubbard, and Mary Kay Stein
  Journal of Educational Change, 2006
  
• The Preuss School at UCSD: School Characteristics and Students' Achievement (PDF)
  Larry McClure, Betsy Strick, Rachel Jacob-Almeida & Christopher Reichernd
  June 2005
  
• The Preuss School at UCSD: School Characteristics and Students' Achievement(PDF)
  Larry McClure and Cesar Morales
  June 2004
  
• La Clase Mágica: Imagining Optimal Possibilities
  In a Bilingual Community of Learners
  Olga Vázquez
  2003
• Charter School Debate at the University of California, San Diego (PDF)
  Fall 2003
  
• Extending Educational Reform
  From One School to Many
  Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan
  May 2002
  
• Shaping Pathways to Higher Education(PDF)
  Makeba Jones, Susan Yonezawa, Elizabeth Ballesteros, Hugh Mehan
  Educational Researcher, Volume 31, Number 2, March 2002
  
• Jeanne Powers - API Analysis
  February 2000
• Warren Institute Paper
  Hugh Mehan, Cecil Lytle
  October 2006
• Preuss Report Class of 2006
  Larry McClure, Christopher Reicher
  May 2007
  
• Preuss Report Class of 2007
  Larry McClure, Christopher Reicher
  May 2008
  

Jeanne Powers has analyzed the API rankings and finds that socio-economic characteristics, language fluency, and transience are the most important predictors of a schools ranking

Determinants of School Performance in the San Diego Unified School District

• Executive Summary (PDF)
  
• Main Document (PDF)
  
• Nested Regression Models(PDF)
  

• Educational Reform Implementation: A Co-Constructed Process
  Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan
  1998
  
• Contextual Factors Surrounding Hispanic Dropouts
  Hugh Mehan
  January 1997
  
• Constructing School Success: The Consequences of
  Untracking Low Achieving Students
  Hugh Mehan, Irene Villanueva, Lea Hubbard, Angela Lintz, Dina Okamoto
  June 1996
  

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