Who Benefits from KIPP?
Joshua Angrist,
Susan Dynarski,
Thomas J. Kane (),
Parag Pathak and
Christopher Walters
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Thomas J. Kane: Harvard University
No 5690, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Abstract:
The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on traditional reading and math skills. No Excuses charter schools are sometimes said to focus on relatively motivated high achievers at the expense of students who are most diffiult to teach, including limited English proficiency (LEP) and special education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. We use applicant lotteries to evaluate the impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn, with the largest gains coming from the LEP, SPED, and low-achievement groups. The average reading gains are driven almost completely by SPED and LEP students, whose reading scores rise by roughly 0.35 standard deviations for each year spent at KIPP Lynn.
Keywords: achievement; charter schools; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2011-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-ltv and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012, 31 (4), 837 - 860
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