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Sarah J. Reber; Dennis Rünger; Mitchell D. Wong – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
This paper estimates the causal effects of enrollment in one of five oversubscribed high-quality Los Angeles charter schools using a lottery design. Enrolling in a charter school increased eleventh-grade standardized test scores and enrollment and persistence in four-year colleges substantially, but had no effect on high school GPA. Charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High School Students, Academic Achievement, College Enrollment
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Pineda – Blueprint Labs, 2024
The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010's, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Charter Schools, College Readiness
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Marisa de la Torre; Elaine Allensworth; Kaitlyn Franklin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: English learners (ELs) have the potential to bring much-needed multilingual skills to the workforce, and most ELs aspire to graduate high school and earn a post-secondary credential (Gwynne, Pareja, Ehrlich, & Allensworth, 2012; Shi & Watkinson, 2019). But active ELs graduate high school at far lower rates than their…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, High School Students, At Risk Students, Student Characteristics
Marisa de la Torre; Alyssa Blanchard; Kaitlyn Franklin; Carlos Angeles; Elaine M. Allensworth – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2024
Recent data from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) show that active English Learners were less likely to graduate from high school (77% did so in 2023) than their peers (85%) and less likely to enroll in college (56% of 2022 English Learners high school graduates enrolled in college compared to 66 percent of their non-English Learners high school…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Public Schools, At Risk Students, Urban Schools