AUTONOMOUS SCHOOLS AND STRATEGIC PUPIL EXCLUSION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uez041
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 125-159
• 关键词: academy schools; performance pay; charter; ACCOUNTABILITY; education; impacts; deliver; DESIGN

摘要

This article studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. England has had two phases of academy school introduction-the first, in the 2000s, being a school improvement programme for poorly performing schools and the second a mass academisation programme from 2010 for better-performing schools. Overall, exclusion rates are higher in academies, with the earlier programme featuring much higher rates of exclusion. However, rather than functioning as a means of test score manipulation, the higher exclusion rate reflects the rigorous discipline enforced by the pre-2010 academies.