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Dual Language Education and Student Achievement
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Bibler, Andrew – Education Finance and Policy, 2021
Two-way dual language (DL) classrooms enroll students of two different language backgrounds and teach curriculum in both languages. I estimate the effect of attending a DL school on student achievement using school choice lotteries from Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina, finding local average treatment effects of 0.04 and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Academic Achievement, School Choice, School Districts
WWC Review of the Report "Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice." What Works Clearinghouse Single Study Review
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
For the 2014 study, "Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice," researchers measured the effects of attending Boston's charter high schools on students' reading and math achievement, high school graduation, and college outcomes. Six Boston charter schools that include one or…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High Schools, College Preparation, Reading Achievement
Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York City. NBER Working Paper No. 19576
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Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Hu, Weiwei; Pathak, Parag A. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013
One of the most wideranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York City's high school match to estimate the effects of attendance at a new small high school on student…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection