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

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Cohodes ◽  
Elizabeth Setren ◽  
Christopher Walters
Keyword(s):  
Charter School ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Successful Schools ◽  
School Sector

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-167
Author(s):  
Sarah R. Cohodes ◽  
Elizabeth M. Setren ◽  
Christopher R. Walters
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Teacher Effectiveness ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Successful Schools ◽  
Achievement Gains ◽  
School Sector ◽  
New Locations

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)

Scaling up and Sustaining Charter School Effects

2018 ◽  
pp. 148-167
Author(s):  
Mark Berends ◽  
R. Joseph Waddington
Keyword(s):  
Charter School ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
School Effects

Washington View

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
Maria Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
School Voucher ◽  
School Sector ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
Voucher Programs ◽  
Every Student Succeeds Act

Betsy DeVos, the new Secretary of Education, comes to the job with hopes of creating school voucher programs and expanding the charter school sector. But she will likely find that she has limited power to promote that agenda. While she may be able to convince some states to launch modest new voucher experiments and while she can take advantage of her bully pulpit to advocate on behalf of the charter movement, she inherits an office that — thanks to the Every Student Succeeds Act — gives her far less influence over educational policy making than her predecessors enjoyed.

Big money and its influence on K-12 education: An interview with Sarah Reckhow

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (8) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Rafael Heller
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Federal Policy ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Local School ◽  
Reform Strategies ◽  
School Sector ◽  
K 12

Kappan’s editor talks with Michigan State University’s Sarah Reckhow about her research into the ways wealthy private philanthropies have influenced K-12 education in recent years. As Reckhow explains, not only have Gates, Broad, Walton, and other big foundations spent unprecedented amounts of money to support their favored reform strategies — such as expanding the charter school sector, raising academic standards, and evaluating teachers’ effectiveness — but they’ve maximized their influence by coordinating their messages, funneling their money to specific states and districts, pushing for changes in state and federal policy, and (most recently) contributing to local school board candidates.

scholarly journals The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Ladd ◽  
Charles Clotfelter ◽  
John Holbein
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Charter School ◽  
School Sector

scholarly journals The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen F. Ladd ◽  
Charles T. Clotfelter ◽  
John B. Holbein
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Traditional Public Schools ◽  
School Sector ◽  
Performance Gains

A defining characteristic of charter schools is that they introduce a strong market element into public education. In this paper, we examine through the lens of a market model the evolution of the charter school sector in North Carolina between 1999 and 2012. We examine trends in the mix of students enrolled in charter schools, the racial imbalance of charter schools, patterns in student match quality by schools’ racial composition, and the distributions of test score performance gains compared to those in traditional public schools. In addition, we use student fixed effects models to examine plausibly causal measures of charter school effectiveness. Our findings indicate that charter schools in North Carolina are increasingly serving the interests of relatively able white students in racially imbalanced schools and that despite improvements in the charter school sector over time, charter schools are still no more effective on average than traditional public schools.

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