Do accountability and voucher threats improve low-performing schools?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Figlio, DN; Rouse, CE
• 署名单位: Princeton University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.08.005
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 239-255
• 关键词: School accountability; school voucher threat; Florida A plus plan; no child left behind

摘要

We study the effects of the threat of vouchers and stigma in Florida on the performance of low-performing ' schools. Estimates of the change in raw test scores from the first year of the reform are consistent with the early results which claimed large improvements associated with the threat of vouchers. However, we also find that much of this estimated effect may be due to other factors. The relative gains in reading are largely explained by changing student characteristics and the gains in math-though larger-appear limited to the high-stakes grade. We also find some evidence that these improvements were due more to the stigma of receiving the low grade rather than the threat of Vouchers. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.