Autonomous schools and strategic pupil exclusion

Matteo Sandi and Stephen Machin

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Abstract: This article studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. England has had two phases of academy school introduction-the first, in the 2000s, being a school improvement programme for poorly performing schools and the second a mass academisation programme from 2010 for better-performing schools. Overall, exclusion rates are higher in academies, with the earlier programme featuring much higher rates of exclusion. However, rather than functioning as a means of test score manipulation, the higher exclusion rate reflects the rigorous discipline enforced by the pre-2010 academies.

Keywords: Academies; Discipline; Exclusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2019-07-17
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Published in The Economic Journal, 17, July, 2019, 130(625), pp. 125–159. ISSN: 0013-0133

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Journal Article: Autonomous Schools and Strategic Pupil Exclusion (2020)
Working Paper: Autonomous schools and strategic pupil exclusion (2018)
Working Paper: Autonomous schools and strategic pupil exclusion (2018)
Working Paper: Autonomous Schools and Strategic Pupil Exclusion (2018)
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