TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fryer,Roland G., Jr
TI  - Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17494
PY  - 2011
Y2  - October 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17494
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17494.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Roland G. Fryer, Jr
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center 208
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/495-9592
Fax: 617/495-8570
E-Mail: rfryer@fas.harvard.edu
AB  - In the 2010-2011 school year, we implemented five strategies gleaned from practices in successful charter schools – increased instructional time, a more rigorous approach to building human capital, high-dosage tutoring, frequent use of data to inform instruction, and a culture of high expectations – in nine of the lowest performing schools in Houston, Texas. We show that the average impact of these changes on student achievement is 0.277 standard deviations in math and 0.062 standard deviations in reading, which is strikingly similar to reported impacts of attending the Harlem Children’s Zone and Knowledge is Power Program schools – two widely lauded charter organizations. 
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