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AB  - Federal education policies gave political and financial support for state education agencies to turnaround low-performing schools on an unprecedented scale. North Carolina’s ambitious program turned around over half of all schools nationwide that underwent turnaround funded by Race to the Top. Exploiting the assignment to turnaround based on schools’ 2009-10 proficiency rates, we implement  regression discontinuity designs to estimate the effects of state turnaround services on student achievement in North Carolina’s lowest-performing schools annually from the 2011-12 through 2014-15. Overall, we find modest positive effects of turnaround when including treated schools at all grade levels, but these effects are sensitive to bandwidth. For secondary schools, we find consistently positive effects that vary from modest to large. For elementary and middle schools, we find consistent, modest negative effects of turnaround on student achievement.
AU  - Henry, Gary T.
AU  - Guthrie, J. Edward
DA  - July 2019
PY  - 2019
ST  - The Effects of Race to the Top School Turnaround in North Carolina
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - The Effects of Race to the Top School Turnaround in North Carolina
UR  - http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai19-107
ER  -