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Stiefel, Leanna; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Wiswall, Matthew – Educational Researcher, 2015
Research finds that small high schools deliver better outcomes than large high schools for urban students. An important outstanding question is whether this better performance is gained at the expense of losses elsewhere: Does small school reform lift the whole district? We explore New York City's small high school reform in which hundreds of new…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Change, Small Schools, High Schools
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna; Wiswall, Matthew – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2012
We evaluate the effectiveness of small high school reform in the country's largest school district, New York City. Using a rich administrative dataset for multiple cohorts of students and distance between student residence and school to instrument for endogenous school selection, we find substantial heterogeneity in school effects: newly created…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Urban Schools, School District Size, School Districts
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna; Rubenstein, Ross; Zabel, Jeffrey – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
Although rearranging school organizational features is a popular school reform, little research exists to inform policymakers about how grade spans affect achievement. This article examines how grade spans and the school transitions that students make between fourth and eighth grade shape student performance in eighth grade. The authors estimate…
Descriptors: School Organization, Educational Change, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Grade 8
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna; Carlton, Abigail Conover – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2009
Housing and education share strong ties in the United States. This relationship is shaped, in large part, by mobility. Students move to new schools, homes and neighborhoods as a result of planned and unplanned family relocations. Taxpayers move from one school district to another in a nation where school quality is closely tied to the district in…
Descriptors: Housing, Public Policy, Educational Change, Disadvantaged Youth
Iatarola, Patrice; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna; Chellman, Colin C. – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: High school reform is currently at the top of the education policy making agenda after years of stagnant achievement and persistent racial and income test score gaps. Although a number of reforms offer some promise of improving U.S. high schools, small schools have emerged as the favored reform model, especially in urban areas,…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, Educational Change, Urban Schools
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna; Kim, Dae Yeop – Journal of Human Resources, 2004
This paper evaluates the impact of the New York Networks for School Renewal Project, a whole school reform initiated by the Annenberg Foundation as part of a nationwide reform strategy. It uses data on students in randomly chosen control schools to estimate impacts on student achievement, using an intent-to-treat design. After controlling for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, National Programs, Student Mobility, Institutional Characteristics