The effect of charter schools on traditional public school students in Texas: Are children who stay behind left behind?

被引:56
作者
Booker, Kevin
Gilpatric, Scott M. [2 ]
Gronberg, Timothy [1 ]
Jansen, Dennis
机构
[1] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Econ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[2] Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA
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10.1016/j.jue.2007.10.003
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F [经济];
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02 ;
摘要
Texas has been an important player in the emergence of the charter school industry. We test for a competitive effect of charters by looking for changes in student achievement in traditional public schools following charter market penetration. We use an eight-year panel of data on individual student test scores for public schools students in Texas in order to evaluate the achievement impact of charter schools. We estimate a model that includes studen/campus spell fixed effects to control for campus demographic and peer group characteristics, and to control directly for student and student family background characteristics. We find a positive and significant effect of charter school penetration on traditional public school student outcomes. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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