Charter Schools and the Road to College Readiness: The Effects on College Preparation, Attendance and Choice. Understanding Boston

Autor/inn/en	Angrist, Joshua D.; Cohodes, Sarah R.; Dynarski, Susan M.; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, Christopher D.
Institution	Boston Foundation; NewSchools Venture Fund
Titel	Charter Schools and the Road to College Readiness: The Effects on College Preparation, Attendance and Choice. Understanding Boston
Quelle	(2013), (60 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	Weitere Informationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; College Readiness; College Preparation; Attendance; College Choice; State Legislation; Educational Legislation; Educational Change; Outcomes of Education; High School Graduates; Graduation Rate; State Standards; Scholarship; Advanced Placement; College Entrance Examinations; Scores; Enrollment; Accountability; High Stakes Tests; Test Preparation; Educational Assessment; Benchmarking; Special Education; Statistical Analysis; Massachusetts (Boston); SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Anwesenheit; Studienortwahl; Landesrecht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bildungsreform; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Scholarships; Stipendium; Aufnahmeprüfung; Einschulung; Verantwortung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	The Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 set in motion a series of major new initiatives to equalize funding across the Commonwealth, improve the quality of teaching, and strengthen accountability for school performance. Among other important innovations, MERA established the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) to inform curriculum and instruction and evaluate the performance of students, schools and districts. Also as part of the Act, the first charter schools were permitted to open in Massachusetts. This new report assesses the effect of Boston's charter high schools on student outcomes beyond MCAS test scores. The authors focus on outcomes that are either essential for or facilitate post-secondary schooling: high school graduation, the attainment of state competency thresholds, college scholarship qualification, Advanced Placement (AP) and SAT scores, college enrollment and college choice. These new results address an important critique of the research linking school performance with MCAS: as part of their effort to meet accountability standards, schools may feel pressure to "teach to the test" and to focus on students who are most likely to contribute to score gains. By contrast, in addition to their intrinsic significance, most of the outcomes examined here are not part of the state's high-stakes accountability system, and therefore not subject to the same risk of strategic test preparation. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01