Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots
We use student assignment lotteries to estimate the effect of charter school attendance on student achievement in Boston. We also evaluate a related alternative, Boston's pilot schools. Pilot schools have some of the independence of charter schools, but operate within the Boston Public School...
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| author | Abdulkadiroglu, Atila Angrist, Joshua Dynarski, Susan M. Kane, Thomas J. Pathak, Parag |
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| description | We use student assignment lotteries to estimate the effect of charter school attendance on
student achievement in Boston. We also evaluate a related alternative, Boston's pilot schools. Pilot schools have some of the independence of charter schools, but operate within the Boston Public School district and are covered by some collective bargaining provisions. Lottery estimates show large and significant score gains for charter students in middle and high school. In contrast, lottery estimates for pilot school students are mostly small and insignificant, with some significant negative effects. Charter schools with binding assignment lotteries appear to generate larger gains than other charters. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/619452022-10-03T11:16:03Z Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots Abdulkadiroglu, Atila Angrist, Joshua Dynarski, Susan M. Kane, Thomas J. Pathak, Parag Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Angrist, Joshua Angrist, Joshua Pathak, Parag We use student assignment lotteries to estimate the effect of charter school attendance on student achievement in Boston. We also evaluate a related alternative, Boston's pilot schools. Pilot schools have some of the independence of charter schools, but operate within the Boston Public School district and are covered by some collective bargaining provisions. Lottery estimates show large and significant score gains for charter students in middle and high school. In contrast, lottery estimates for pilot school students are mostly small and insignificant, with some significant negative effects. Charter schools with binding assignment lotteries appear to generate larger gains than other charters. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF-CAREER award) Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Boston Foundation 2011-03-24T20:40:53Z 2011-03-24T20:40:53Z 2011-03 2010-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0033-5533 1531-4650 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61945 Abdulkadiroglu, Atila et al. "Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots." Quarterly Journal of Economics, (2011) 126(2): 699-748. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr017 Quarterly Journal of Economics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf President and Fellows of Harvard College MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Abdulkadiroglu, Atila Angrist, Joshua Dynarski, Susan M. Kane, Thomas J. Pathak, Parag Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots |
| title | Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots |
| title_full | Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots |
| title_fullStr | Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots |
| title_short | Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots |
| title_sort | accountability and flexibility in public schools evidence from boston s charters and pilots |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61945 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864 |
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