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  title info:
    title: Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem
  name:
    name part: Dobbie, Will.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Fryer, Roland G, Jr.
  name:
    name part: National Bureau of Economic Research
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
  abstract: Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward informing the long-standing debate whether schools alone can eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to overcome. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies lead us to the same story: Harlem Children's Zone is effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are enough to close the black-white achievement gap in mathematics and reduce it by nearly half in English Language Arts. The effects in elementary school close the racial achievement gap in both subjects. We conclude by presenting four pieces of evidence that high-quality schools or high-quality schools coupled with community investments generate the achievement gains. Community investments alone cannot explain the results.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Will Dobbie, Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
  note: November 2009.
  subject:
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Labor Economics: General
  classification: I20
  classification: J01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15473
  record info:
    record content source: MaCbNBER
    record creation date: 230622
    record change date: 20230622022633.0
    record identifier: 99370888117606441
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng