Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
Lottery estimates suggest Massachusetts' urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of traditional urban public schools students, while nonurban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. The fact that urban charters are most effective for poor nonwhites and low-baseline...
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| author | Angrist, Joshua Pathak, Parag Walters, Christopher R. |
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| description | Lottery estimates suggest Massachusetts' urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of traditional urban public schools students, while nonurban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. The fact that urban charters are most effective for poor nonwhites and low-baseline achievers contributes to, but does not fully explain, these differences. We therefore link school-level charter impacts to school inputs and practices. The relative efficacy of urban lottery sample charters is accounted for by these schools' embrace of the No Excuses approach to urban education. In our Massachusetts sample, Non-No-Excuses urban charters are no more effective than nonurban charters |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/961572022-09-29T21:54:17Z Explaining Charter School Effectiveness Angrist, Joshua Pathak, Parag Walters, Christopher R. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Angrist, Joshua Pathak, Parag Lottery estimates suggest Massachusetts' urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of traditional urban public schools students, while nonurban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. The fact that urban charters are most effective for poor nonwhites and low-baseline achievers contributes to, but does not fully explain, these differences. We therefore link school-level charter impacts to school inputs and practices. The relative efficacy of urban lottery sample charters is accounted for by these schools' embrace of the No Excuses approach to urban education. In our Massachusetts sample, Non-No-Excuses urban charters are no more effective than nonurban charters Institute of Education Sciences (U.S.) (Award R305A120269) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant SES-1056325) Massachusetts. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 2015-03-24T18:59:37Z 2015-03-24T18:59:37Z 2013-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1945-7782 1945-7790 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96157 Angrist, Joshua D., Parag A. Pathak, and Christopher R. Walters. “Explaining Charter School Effectiveness.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5, no. 4 (October 2013): 1–27. © 2013 American Economic Association https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.5.4.1 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Economic Association American Economic Association |
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