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Download full textKerry L. Donahue – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2024
This paper examines the long-term impact of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act (MERA) and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) on postsecondary education outcomes, with a focus on historically underserved students. MERA aimed to improve educational standards and close achievement gaps through the introduction of MCAS,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Minority Group Students, College Readiness, College Enrollment
Direct linkElizabeth Setren – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools and to promote racial and socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has bussed students of color from Boston, Massachusetts to relatively wealthier and predominantly White suburbs. Using a…
Descriptors: Busing, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Desegregation Effects
Pierre M. Lucien; Ariel Lindorff; Steve Strand – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Evaluations of Early College, a type of intervention that enables simultaneous enrollment in secondary and post-secondary courses in the United States, consistently find positive effects on educational attainment across racial and socioeconomic groups. Unlike Early College initiatives in other states, Massachusetts launched Early College in Fall…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Dual Enrollment, Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
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
