ERIC Number: ED652569
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-May
Pages: 72
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The Long Shadow of School Closures: Impacts on Students' Educational and Labor Market Outcomes. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-963
Jeonghyeok Kim
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Each year, over a thousand public schools in the US close due to declining enrollments and chronic low performance, displacing hundreds of thousands of students. Using Texas administrative data and empirical strategies that use within-student across-time and within-school across-cohort variation, I explore the impact of school closures on students' educational and labor market outcomes. The findings indicate that experiencing school closures results in disruptions in both test scores and behavior. While the drop in test scores is recovered within three years, behavioral issues persist. This study further finds decreases in post-secondary education attainment, employment, and earnings at ages 25-27. These impacts are particularly pronounced among students in secondary education, Hispanic students, and those from originally low-performing schools and economically disadvantaged families.
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Closing, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Scores, Low Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Postsecondary Education, Educational Attainment, Employment Level, Income, Young Adults, Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic American Students, African American Students, Minority Group Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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: Postsecondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: Texas
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