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Ladd, Helen F. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019
Over the past 30 years, the charter school movement has become a significant factor in U.S. public education. Charter schools were originally designed to be alternative public schools that would allow for greater experimentation and innovation within the public school system. As the number of charter schools has expanded to more than 7,000…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Ladd, Helen F. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019
Over the past 30 years, the charter school movement has become a significant factor in U.S. public education. Charter schools were originally designed to be alternative public schools that would allow for greater experimentation and innovation within the public school system. As the number of charter schools has expanded to more than 7,000…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Ladd, Helen F.; Muschkin, Clara G.; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014
This study examines the community-wide effects of two statewide early childhood policy initiatives in North Carolina. One initiative provides funding to improve the quality of child care services at the county level for all children between the ages of 0 to 5, and the other provides funding for preschool slots for disadvantaged four-year-olds.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Grade 3, Child Care, State Aid
Ladd, Helen F. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Current U.S. policy initiatives to improve the U.S. education system, including No Child Left Behind, test-based evaluation of teachers, and the promotion of competition are misguided because they either deny or set to the side a basic body of evidence documenting that students from disadvantaged households on average perform less well in school…
Descriptors: Evidence, Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
Ladd, Helen F.; Fiske, Edward B. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
Although a relatively new idea in the U.S., weighted student funding (WSF) for individual schools has a long history in the Netherlands. This country of about 16.5 million people has been using a version of WSF for all its primary schools (serving children from age 4 to 12) for 25 years. In this article we describe and evaluate the Dutch system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Funding Formulas, Educational Finance
Ladd, Helen F.; Lauen, Douglas L. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010
Although the federal No Child Left Behind program judges the effectiveness of schools based on their students' achievement status, many policy analysts argue that schools should be measured, instead, by their students' achievement growth. Using a 10-year student-level panel data set from North Carolina, we examine how school-specific pressure…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement
Bifulco, Robert; Ladd, Helen F. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2007
Using panel data that track individual students from year to year, we examine the effects of charter schools in North Carolina on racial segregation and black-white test score gaps. We find that North Carolina's system of charter schools has increased the racial isolation of both black and white students, and has widened the achievement gap.…
Descriptors: White Students, Scores, School Choice, Racial Segregation
Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Vigdor, Jacob L.; Diaz, Roger Aliaga – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
Administrative data from North Carolina are used to explore the extent to which that state's relatively sophisticated school-based accountability system has exacerbated the challenges that schools serving low-performing students face in retaining and attracting high-quality teachers. Most clear are the adverse effects on retention rates, and hence…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Accountability, Policy Analysis