Heterogeneous Effects of Charter Schools: Unpacking Family Selection and Achievement Growth in Los Angeles

Shin, Hyung-Ki; Fuller, Bruce; Dauter, Luke

doi:10.1080/15582159.2016.1238278

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“…Students attending the same charter for at least 3 years displayed higher test scores than peers in TPS during the 2008 to 2012 period (about one-quarter standard deviation higher; Raymond, 2014). A second study replicated Raymond's results for a more recent period, finding stronger value-added effects among Latino elementary and middle-school youngsters, relative to other groups attending traditional schools (Shin, Fuller & Dauter, 2017). But we also discovered that charter educators tend to admit stronger pupils early in grade cycles.…”

Section: Do Pluralist Politics Move Institutions?mentioning

confidence: 62%

Neoliberalism in Decline? New Pluralists Recast Schools in Los Angeles

Fuller

2022

Educational Policy

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Neoliberal tenets have colored the past half-century of education reform, marked by top-down accountability, market competition, and regimented learning aims. Federal drift and post-pandemic recovery, along with economic uncertainty, will blur policy priorities going forward. Less noticed, local networks of pro-equity activists have come to challenge urban bureaucracies, while advancing fairness, diverse forms of schooling, respectful and rigorous social relations inside schools. This paper examines the case of Los Angeles, where a coalition of Black and Latina leaders, civil rights attorneys, social-justice nonprofits, and pedagogical reformers succeeded to progressively fund schools, extend college-prep courses, and decriminalize discipline. Student achievement, in turn, climbed steadily upward for nearly two decades, 2002 to 2019. This pluralist network of advocates carved-out a third civic terrain, challenging corporate elites and traditional labor leaders. Rooted in humanist ideals, these colorful activists countered the individualistic and competitive values of neoliberal advocates, while motivating lasting institutional change.

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Section: Do Pluralist Politics Move Institutions?mentioning

confidence: 62%

Neoliberalism in Decline? New Pluralists Recast Schools in Los Angeles

Fuller

2022

Educational Policy

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“…For our purposes, this requires local matching of students within feeder middle schools, typical student demographics, and baseline (eighth grade) test scores in the matching model. These matching estimators have been used in prior studies of charter and pilot schools (Abdulkadiroğlu et al, 2011; Lauen et al, 2015; Raymond, 2014; Shin et al, 2016).…”

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“…Much has been learned about the value-added effects of charter schools in LA. Using data on charter and TPS students for 2007–2011, Shin et al (2016) report that charter high schools enrolled lower percentages of Latino students than TPS, along with substantially fewer limited English proficient students and those eligible for free or reduced price meals. Charter students were positively selected in terms of eighth-grade test scores, with a difference of about .50 SD between charters and TPS.…”

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Competing With Charter Schools: Selection, Retention, and Achievement in Los Angeles Pilot Schools

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Charter schools place competitive pressure on school districts to retain students and public funding. Many districts also have moved to decentralize control of budgets and teacher hiring down to school principals, independent of competitive pressures. But almost no evaluation evidence gauges the effectiveness of charter-like schools, relative to traditional public schools. We find that autonomous pilot schools in Los Angeles enroll more low-income and Spanish-speaking students, compared with traditional schools. Pilot pupils are significantly less likely to exit the school district. But pilot pupils displayed lower test scores in mathematics and fell slightly below traditional students in English-language arts, taking into account prior performance and their propensity to enter pilot schools. We tracked 6,732 students entering pilot high schools between 2008 and 2012, statistically matched in multiple ways with traditional peers from identical sending middle schools. We discuss the advantages of our evaluation strategy and the implications of our findings for education leaders and policy makers.

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“…One potential explanation for the success of Boston charter school expansion, where other efforts at 13 Other studies of competitive effects of charter schools on nearby district schools' test scores generally find no or small positive impacts (Booker et al, 2008;Cordes, 2018;Jinnai, 2014;Davis, 2013;Sass, 2006;Shin, Fuller, and Dauter, 2017;Winters, 2012;Zimmer and Buddin, 2009). One exception is Imberman (2011) which found a mix of neutral and negative effects.…”

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Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector

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2021

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Can schools that boost student outcomes reproduce their success at new campuses? We study a policy reform that allowed effective charter schools in Boston, Massachusetts to replicate their school models at new locations. Estimates based on randomized admission lotteries show that replication charter schools generate large achievement gains on par with those produced by their parent campuses. The average effectiveness of Boston’s charter middle school sector increased after the reform despite a doubling of charter market share. An exploration of mechanisms shows that Boston charter schools compress the distribution of teacher effectiveness and may reduce the returns to teacher experience, suggesting the highly standardized practices in place at charter schools may facilitate replicability. (JEL H75, I21, I28)

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Heterogeneous Effects of Charter Schools: Unpacking Family Selection and Achievement Growth in Los Angeles

Cited by 7 publications

References 40 publications

Neoliberalism in Decline? New Pluralists Recast Schools in Los Angeles

Neoliberalism in Decline? New Pluralists Recast Schools in Los Angeles

Competing With Charter Schools: Selection, Retention, and Achievement in Los Angeles Pilot Schools

Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector

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