ERIC Number: ED661560
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 73
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Do the Effects Persist? An Examination of Long-Term Effects after Students Leave Turnaround Schools. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-1041
Lam D. Pham; Sean P. Corcoran; Gary T. Henry; Ron Zimmer
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Whole-school reforms have received widespread attention, but a critical limitation of the current literature is the lack of evidence around whether these extensive and costly interventions improve students' long-term outcomes after they leave reform schools. Leveraging Tennessee's statewide turnaround reforms, we use difference-in-differences models to estimate the effect of attending a turnaround middle school on student outcomes in high school, including test scores, attendance, chronic absenteeism, disciplinary actions, drop out, and high school graduation. We find little evidence to support improved long-run student outcomes -- mostly null effects that are nearly zero in magnitude. Our results contribute to a broad call for educational researchers to examine whether school reforms meaningfully affect student outcomes beyond short-term improvements in test scores.
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Middle Schools, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, School Turnaround, Government School Relationship, Governance, Intervention, Graduation Rate
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: AISR_Info@brown.edu; Web site: http://www.annenberginstitute.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Laura and John Arnold Foundation; Walton Family Foundation
Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: Tennessee
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Every Student Succeeds Act 2015
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