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School District Reform in Newark: Within- and Between-School Changes in Achievement Growth / Mark J. Chin, Thomas J. Kane, Whitney Kozakowski, Beth E. Schueler, Douglas O. Staiger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chin, Mark J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23922.
- NBER working paper series no. w23922
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- School District Reform in Newark
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- In 2011-12, Newark launched a set of educational reforms supported by a gift from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. Using data from 2009 through 2016, we evaluate the change in Newark students' achievement growth relative to similar students and schools elsewhere in New Jersey. We measure achievement growth using a "value-added" model, controlling for prior achievement, demographics and peer characteristics. By the fifth year of reform, Newark saw statistically significant gains in English and no significant change in math achievement growth. Perhaps due to the disruptive nature of the reforms, growth declined initially before rebounding in recent years. Aided by the closure of low value-added schools, much of the improvement was due to shifting enrollment from lower- to higher-growth district and charter schools. Shifting enrollment accounted for 62 percent of the improvement in English. In math, such shifts offset what would have been a decline in achievement growth.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2017.
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