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Direct linkHeissel, 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
Heissel, Jennifer A.; Ladd, Helen F. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2016
This paper examines the effect of school turnaround in North Carolina elementary and middle schools. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that turnaround led to a drop in average school-level math and reading passing rates and an increased concentration of low-income students in treated schools. We use teacher survey data to examine…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Regression (Statistics), Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Harris, Douglas N.; Ladd, Helen F.; Smith, Marshall S.; West, Martin R. – Brookings Institution, 2016
The federal government's role in PreK-12 education has long been contentious and continues to evolve. Many have written about education governance, but few have attempted to define an appropriate role for the federal government. That is the core purpose of this essay. The authors articulate a set of principles to guide the federal role in…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Government Role, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
