Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time : Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools

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Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools

By: Brian P. Gill, Shana Pribesh, Ron W. Zimmer, Laura S. Hamilton, Julie A. Marsh

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Paperback | 1 September 2005

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In 2000, Edison Schools, the nation’s largest education management organization, asked RAND to analyze its achievement outcomes and design implementation. RAND evaluated Edison’s strategies for promoting student achievement in its schools, how it implemented those strategies, how its management affected student achievement, and what factors explained differences in achievement trends among its schools.

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Introduction	p. 1
A brief history of Edison schools and a review of existing literature	p. 7
Inspiration : Edison's strategies for "world-class" education	p. 23
Perspiration : the Edison model in the schools	p. 53
Methodology for examining academic achievement in Edison schools	p. 93
Time : effects of Edison management on academic achievement	p. 119
Inside the black box : differences in achievement among Edison schools	p. 145
Conclusions and implications	p. 163
Causal inference in the analysis of academic achievement in Edison schools	p. 177
Analyses in which each Edison school was included	p. 185
Calculating standard errors for estimated effects	p. 195
Comparison of traditional and rank-based Z-scores	p. 201
Comparison of gain score method to an alternative approach using predicted level scores	p. 203
Comparison of schools with large and small enrollment change between Y0 and Y1	p. 205
Changes in demographic characteristics of Edison students through years four and five	p. 207
Comparison of results for Philadelphia schools and other schools	p. 209
Comparison of recent change analyses using district versus state comparison schools	p. 211
Comparison of Y1 and Y0 results using district versus state comparison schools	p. 213
Supplemental analyses to explore the Y0 results	p. 215
Comparison of Y1 and Y0 analyses using a common set of Edison schools	p. 233
Differences in Z-score changes for Edison schools that were managed by Edison for at least four years	p. 235
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