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Detailed Information

Country	Country: United States
GDP per capita	41.409
Context details	Schools from eleven states; 3 school were urban schools, 4 suburban and 4 rural
Age	Grade 9

2. Intervention

Implementation year	1994
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	9
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Teachers were trained in a 2-week training for implementation of the new math curriculum; 36 schools participated

Evaluation design	Differences-in-differences
Cluster definition	Individual

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Grade 9	Math	ITED Quantitative Thinking	N/A	1050	YT0: 258.30; YC0: 258.30; YT1: 266.00; YC0: 257.10; SDC0: 36.10; SDC1: 46.20; NT1: 525 NC1: 525

Study	Schoen, Harold L., and Christian R. Hirsch. "The Core-Plus Mathematics Project: Perspectives and Student Achievement." In Standards-based School Mathematics Curricula: What Are They? What Do Students Learn?, edited by S.L. Senk and D.R. Thompson, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, (2003): pp 311-343.