What Do Experiments Such as the 1976 Experiment on Housing

question 23

Multiple Choice

What do experiments such as the 1976 experiment on housing placement under the Chicago Housing Authority demonstrate about the neighborhood effect on academic achievement?

• A) Adolescents who move from less-resourced neighborhoods to more-resourced neighborhoods tend to fare the same academically as their peers who remain in low-resource neighborhoods.
• B) Adolescents in less-resourced neighborhoods can perform just as well as their peers in more-resourced neighborhoods when parents are advocates for their children.
• C) Parental involvement is critical to academic achievement regardless of the neighborhood context.
• D) Adolescents who move from less-resourced neighborhoods to more-resourced neighborhoods, tend to perform better academically than their peers who remain in low-resource neighborhoods.
• E) Individual or family influences are more important than neighborhood influences.

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