| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21895 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21895 |
| Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts | |
| Beth E. Schueler; Joshua Goodman; David J. Deming | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-01-18 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The Federal government has spent billions of dollars to support turnarounds of low-achieving schools, yet most evidence on the impact of such turnarounds comes from high-profile, exceptional settings and not from examples driven by state policy decisions at scale. In this paper, we study the impact of state takeover and district-level turnaround in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Takeover of the Lawrence Public School (LPS) district was driven by the state’s accountability system, which increases state control in response to chronic underperformance. We find that the first two years of the LPS turnaround produced large achievement gains in math and modest gains in reading. Our preferred estimates compare LPS to other low income school districts in a differences-in-differences framework, although the results are robust to a wide variety of specifications, including student fixed effects. While the LPS turnaround was a package of interventions that cannot be fully separated, we find evidence that intensive small-group instruction led to particularly large achievement gains for participating students. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21895 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579570 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Beth E. Schueler,Joshua Goodman,David J. Deming. Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts. 2016. |
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