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7 July 2017 Organisation of Markets Authors: Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sarah Cohodes (Columbia University), Susan M. Dynarski (University of Michigan), Parag Pathak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Christopher D. Walters (UC Berkeley)

Charter schools do more than teach to the test: evidence from Boston

Students who attend charter schools tend to outperform students enrolled in traditional schools on state-mandated measures of student achievement. But critics claim this is because charter schools “teach to the test,” something they have an incentive to do since charter schools can be closed if their students do poorly on the state tests. This research uses a “natural experiment” in Boston schools to examine whether charter school students do better than traditional students on other measures of achievement that are correlated with long-term success. We find that the gains on state tests carry over to these additional measures, an indication that charter schools add value that extends beyond improved scores on state tests.

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