CHARTER SCHOOLS AND OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM IN THE U.S.

美国的特许学校和开放招生计划

• 批准号: 6521044
• 负责人: CAROLINE M HOXBY
• 金额: $ 11.25万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-05-01 至 2004-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6521044
• 关键词: academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; choice; clinical research; education evaluation /planning; elementary school; human subject; middle childhood (6-11); questionnaires; secondary schools; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION: This study investigates the costs and benefits of giving parents more choice over schooling. It analyzes two of the most popular methods of expanding choice: charter schools and open enrollment programs. The first part of the study evaluates Massachusetts charter schools, comparing the achievement of students who attend them with students who applied to them but were randomly rejected by admissions lotteries. The general question is whether charter schools offer environments better suited to certain students but currently unavailable in the public schools. Specific questions include whether charter school students perform better on standardized tests, are more likely to graduate from high school on time, or are more likely to enroll in college. Because it uses a random control group, this study is likely to provide the first reliable evidence on such questions. The second part of the study analyzes the financial and governance structures of the twenty-nine open enrollment and charter school programs in the U.S. The overall question is how these programs should be structured to provide maximum net social benefit. Specific questions include how much revenue a district that receives a student under open enrollment should get, and whether this revenue should come from the district that loses the student. Because the study rigorously analyzes how parents and schools react to the incentives given by different program structures, its evidence is likely to help predict the effects of proposed programs and formulate better ones. This is in contrast to studies that assume that all reforms associated with the same name are the same (typical of the literature on past education reforms); these often produce conflicting evidence and little conceptual understanding of how the reforms affect behavior.

描述：这项研究调查了给予的成本和收益。 家长对学校教育有更多选择。 它分析了两个最受欢迎的 扩大选择的方法：特许学校和开放招生计划。 研究的第一部分评估了马萨诸塞州的特许学校， 比较参加这些课程的学生和 但被录取抽签随机拒绝。 的 一个普遍的问题是，特许学校是否提供了更适合 但目前公立学校还没有。 具体的问题包括特许学校的学生是否表现更好， 标准化考试，更有可能按时从高中毕业，或者 更有可能进入大学。 因为它使用了随机控制 这项研究可能会提供第一个可靠的证据， 问题. 第二部分分析了公司的财务和治理结构 29个开放招生和特许学校项目的结构， 总的问题是这些计划应该如何结构， 提供最大的净社会效益。 具体问题包括： 一个接受公开招生学生的地区应该得到的收入， 以及这笔收入是否应该来自失去了 学生. 因为这项研究严格分析了家长和学校 对不同计划结构给予的激励做出反应，其证据 可能有助于预测拟议计划的效果，并制定 更好的 这与那些假设所有改革都 与相同名称相关的是相同的（典型的文献 过去的教育改革）;这些往往产生相互矛盾的证据， 从概念上理解改革如何影响行为。