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Weiss, Michael J.; May, Henry – Education Finance and Policy, 2012
As test-based educational accountability has moved to the forefront of national and state education policy, so has the desire for better measures of school performance. No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) status and safe harbor measures have been criticized for being unfair and unreliable, respectively. In response to such criticism, in 2005 the federal…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, Federal Programs
Winters, Marcus A.; Greene, Jay P. – Education Finance and Policy, 2012
We use a regression discontinuity strategy to produce causal estimates for the effect of remediation under Florida's test-based promotion policy on multiple outcomes for up to five years after the intervention. Students subjected to the policy were retained in the third grade, were required to be assigned to a high-quality teacher during the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Intervention, Remedial Instruction
Sass, Tim R. – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
I utilize longitudinal data covering all public school students in Florida to study the performance of charter schools and their competitive impact on traditional public schools. Controlling for student-level fixed effects, I find achievement initially is lower in charters. However, by their fifth year of operation new charter schools reach a par…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Nonprofit Organizations