ERIC Number: ED670885
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Jul
Pages: 41
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The Effects of Race to the Top School Turnaround in North Carolina. EdWorkingPaper No. 19-107
Gary T. Henry; J. Edward Guthrie
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Federal education policies gave political and financial support for state education agencies to turnaround low-performing schools on an unprecedented scale. North Carolina's ambitious program turned around over half of all schools nationwide that underwent turnaround funded by Race to the Top. Exploiting the assignment to turnaround based on schools' 2009-10 proficiency rates, we implement regression discontinuity designs to estimate the effects of state turnaround services on student achievement in North Carolina's lowest-performing schools annually from the 2011-12 through 2014-15. Overall, we find modest positive effects of turnaround when including treated schools at all grade levels, but these effects are sensitive to bandwidth. For secondary schools, we find consistently positive effects that vary from modest to large. For elementary and middle schools, we find consistent, modest negative effects of turnaround on student achievement.
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Academic Achievement, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Low Achievement, Regression (Statistics), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, School Closing, Validity, Models, Achievement Gains, Scores
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: annenberg@brown.edu; Web site: https://annenberg.brown.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: North Carolina
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Race to the Top
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