A Leg Up or a Boot Out?: Student Achievement and Mobility under School Restructuring. Working Paper 78

Autor/inn/en	Özek, Umut; Hansen, Michael; Gonzalez, Thomas
Institution	National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research
Titel	A Leg Up or a Boot Out?: Student Achievement and Mobility under School Restructuring. Working Paper 78
Quelle	(2012), (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; School Closing; Low Achievement; Public Schools; Elementary Schools; Middle Schools; School Restructuring; Student Mobility; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Middle schools
Abstract	School closures are increasingly common among U.S. public schools, driven by both budgetary constraints and accountability pressures to turnaround low-performing schools. This paper contributes to the nascent literature on school closures by evaluating student achievement and mobility outcomes in a large-scale restructuring effort in Washington, D.C. in which 32 elementary and middle school campuses were closed or consolidated in the summer of 2008. Using longitudinal data, we investigate how student outcomes change in relation to this initiative with an instrumental variables strategy that counters the endogeneity of student assignment across schools before and after the restructuring occurred. The results show that the academic performance of students directly affected by the school restructuring experienced a temporary decline, but it rebounded by the second school year after restructuring occurred. Additionally, we find no evidence of closure adversely inducing further mobility among affected students. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2022/4/11