Title: Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone

Type Dataset Dobbie, Will, Fryer, Jr., Roland G. (2018): Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/B7YLTV

Authors: Dobbie, Will (Princeton University) ; Fryer, Jr., Roland G. (Harvard University) ; Dobbie, Will (Princeton University) ; Fryer, Jr., Roland G. (Harvard University) ;

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Summary

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), an ambitious social experiment, combines community programs with charter schools. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ charters on educational outcomes. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies suggest that the effects of attending an HCZ middle school are enough to close the black-white achievement gap in mathematics. The effects in elementary school are large enough to close the racial achievement gap in both mathematics and ELA. We conclude with evidence that suggests high-quality schools are enough to significantly increase academic achievement among the poor. Community programs appear neither necessary nor sufficient.

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• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/B7YLTV

Subjects

• Social Sciences
• CESSDA: Compulsory and pre-school education

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: June 29, 2018
• Updated: July 27, 2022

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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