Josh Angrist, Professor
| Jan/15 | Wed | 10:30AM-12:00PM | E17-136 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Boston's charter high schools have shown themselves to be adept at boosting MCAS scores, the state-mandated assessments used to decide which schools are successful. Have these MCAS gains translated into gains in the outcomes, such as college attendance, that students themselves care about? We use charter school admissions lotteries to answer this question, with some surprising results. Come learn how MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative approaches such questions, and how our econometric work has affected social policy in Boston and elsewhere.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU