Climbing the College Ladder? The Effects of New Orleans School Reforms on College Outcomes and the Quality of Colleges That Students Attended. EdWorkingPaper No. 20-339

Autor/inn/en	Glenn, Beth; Harris, Douglas N.
Institution	Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Titel	Climbing the College Ladder? The Effects of New Orleans School Reforms on College Outcomes and the Quality of Colleges That Students Attended. EdWorkingPaper No. 20-339
Quelle	(2020), (71 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; School Choice; Educational Change; Charter Schools; School Districts; Educational Quality; Institutional Characteristics; College Attendance; College Choice; Academic Persistence; College Transfer Students; High School Graduates; At Risk Students; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Low Income Students; Socioeconomic Status; Louisiana (New Orleans) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Bildungsreform; Charter school; Charter-Schule; School district; Schulbezirk; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Studienortwahl; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status
Abstract	Multiple studies have documented the positive effect of school choice on college attendance. We focus instead on the quality of colleges, which is linked to higher graduation rates and later-in-life wages, especially for Black and Hispanic students. We examine the effect of the New Orleans school reforms, a district-wide reform creating an almost all-charter school district, on the quality of colleges that students attended. Using difference-in-differences analysis of statewide microdata, we find that the reforms led students to attend four-year colleges, and higher-quality ones, at higher rates. The reforms also increased the share of college-goers who were well matched to their colleges and this had little effect on transfer or persistence rates. Overall, these results reinforce that the reforms led students to attend higher-quality colleges that will improve long-term life outcomes. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01