DPA Research and Policy Seminar Series: Bryant Hopkins
January 24, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Conference room 1, CUPPA Hall
Address
412 S Peoria Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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Title: The Impact of No Child Left Behind Waivers on Student Achievement Gaps
In 2001, George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, marking a new era of federal oversight and accountability in public education. The legislation created problems for many states and, between 2011 and 2014, the US Department of Education awarded 42 states and the District of Columbia waivers that exempted them from the most stringent aspects of the law. This paper is the first to investigate if NCLB waivers – a policy that arguably mirrors the structure of the Every Student Succeeds Act – reduced district-level racial achievement gaps and determine what attributes of waiver plans worked to further this goal. I find that waivers significantly reduced the white-black math and white-black ELA achievement gaps by -.018 and -.009 standard deviations, respectively. In contrast, the white-Hispanic ELA achievement gap expanded by .011 standard deviations.
Lower Level, Conference room 1, CUPPA Hall
Date posted
Jan 14, 2020
Date updated
Jan 14, 2020