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Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector

Sarah R. Cohodes,
Elizabeth Setren,
Christopher R. Walters

Can schools that boost student outcomes reproduce their success at new campuses? We study a policy reform that allowed effective charter schools in Boston, Massachusetts to replicate their school models at new locations. Estimates based on randomized admission lotteries show that replication charter schools generate large achievement gains on par with those produced by their parent campuses. The average effectiveness of Boston’s charter middle school sector increased after the reform despite a doubling of charter market share. An exploration of mechanisms shows that Boston charter schools reduce the returns to teacher experience and compress the distribution of teacher effectiveness, suggesting the highly standardized practices in place at charter schools may facilitate replicability.

Education level
K-12 Education
Topics
School Choice
Tags
Charter schools,
Human capital,
School reform
Download 04/2019
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/ge7q-qa79
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Cohodes, Sarah R., Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Walters. (). Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector. (EdWorkingPaper: -61). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/ge7q-qa79

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