Great paper that I teach in my Econ of Ed class. It's well-known that, while No Excuses charter schools are great for test scores, other charters aren't. But this paper shows that plenty of non-No Excuses charters with zero/negative test score impacts might nonetheless be great schools.
David Slichter
Out today in the June issue of AER:I is my work with Astrid Pineda on the college impacts of charter school attendance💃🏻
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(June 2026) - The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010s, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas non...
