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Download full textCarr, Robert C.; Watts, Tyler W.; Jenkins, Jade M.; Bai, Yu; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Ladd, Helen F.; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Prior research has found that financial investments in North Carolina's early childhood education programs--Smart Start and NC Pre-K--generated positive effects on student achievement in reading and mathematics through eighth grade (Bai et al., 2020). The current study examined if these effects were moderated by two dimensions of educational…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Outcomes of Education, Public Schools
Peer reviewedSorensen, Lucy C.; Ladd, Helen F. – AERA Open, 2020
High teacher turnover imposes numerous burdens on the schools and districts from which teachers depart. Some of these burdens are explicit and take the form of recruiting, hiring, and training costs. Others are more hidden and take the form of changes to the composition and quality of the teaching staff. This study focuses on the latter. We ask…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Effectiveness, Mathematics Teachers, English Teachers
Direct linkLadd, Helen F.; Fiske, Edward B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Many proponents of charter schools suggest that, by providing an option outside traditional public schools, they are helping disadvantaged students who might otherwise be confined to low-quality neighborhood schools. But market-based accountability structures are insufficient to ensure that charter schools are actually enrolling students (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Accountability, Access to Education, Equal Education
Ladd, Helen F.; Clotfelter, Charles T.; Turaeva, Mavzuna – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2018
This paper examines what parents value as they make choices among available charter schools, with primary attention to the racial mix of a school's students. We estimate conditional logit models of the charter school choices made by all parents in North Carolina who switched their child from a traditional public school to a charter school in…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Parent Attitudes, Preferences
Heissel, Jennifer A.; Ladd, Helen F. – Grantee Submission, 2018
This paper examines the effect of a federally supported school turnaround program in North Carolina elementary and middle schools. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the turnaround program did not improve, and may have reduced, average school-level passing rates in math and reading. One potential contributor to that finding…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Program Effectiveness
