Can Interdistrict Choice Boost Student Achievement? The Case of Connecticut's Interdistrict Magnet School Program

被引：39

作者：

Bifulco, Robert ^{[1
,2
]}

Cobb, Casey D. ^{[3
,4
]}

Bell, Courtney ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] Syracuse Univ, Maxwell Sch Citizenship & Publ Affairs, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA

[2] Syracuse Univ, Ctr Policy Res, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA

[3] Univ Connecticut, Neag Sch Educ, Storrs, CT 06269 USA

[4] Univ Connecticut, Ctr Educ Policy Anal, Storrs, CT 06269 USA

[5] Educ Testing Serv, Teaching & Learning Res Ctr, Huntington Woods, MI 48070 USA

来源：

EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS | 2009年 / 31卷 / 04期

关键词：

school choice; magnet schools; desgregation programs; quasiexperimental methods;

D O I：

10.3102/0162373709340917

中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

Connecticut interdistrict magnet schools offer a model of choice-based desegregation that appears to satisfy current legal constraints. This study presents evidence that interdistrict magnet schools have provided students from Connecticut central cities access to less racially and economically isolated educational environments and estimates the impact of attending a magnet school on student achievement. To address potential selection biases, the analyses exploit the random assignment that results from lottery-based admissions for a small set of schools, as well as value-added and fixed-effect estimators that rely on pre-magnet school measures of student achievement to obtain effect estimates for a broader set of interdistrict magnet schools. Results indicate that attendance at an interdistrict magnet high school has positive effects on the math and reading achievement of central city students and that interdistrict magnet middle schools have positive effects on reading achievement.

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页码：323 / 345

页数：23