Supplemental education services under no child left behind: Who signs up, and what do they gain?

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-298

  Heinrich, Carolyn J ^a   Meyer, Robert H ^a   Whitten, Greg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

No Child Left Behind; Student achievement; Supplemental educational services

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954932476     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: 19351062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373710361640     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Abadie, A., & Imbens, G.W. (2006). On the failure of the bootstrap for matching estimators (NBER Technical Working Paper 325).
2. Agodini, R., & Dynarski, M. (2004). Are experiments the only option? A look at dropout prevention programs. Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(1), 180-194.
3. Anderson, L.M., & Laguarda, K.G. (2005). Case studies of supplemental services under the No Child Left Behind Act: Findings from 2003-04. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
4. Black, A.R., Doolittle, F., Zhu, P., Unterman, R., Grossman, J.B., & Warner, E. (2008). The evaluation of enhanced academic instruction in after-school programs: Findings after the first year of implementation. U.S. department of Education National Center for Education Evaluation Report, 2008-4021.
5. Burch, P. (2007). Supplemental educational services under NCLB: Emerging evidence and policy issues. Boulder: Educational Policy Research Unit, University of Colorado.
6. Burch, P. (2009). Hidden markets: The new educational privatization (The Critical Social Thought Series). New York: Routledge.
7. Burch, P., & Good, A. (2009). Getting to the core: The role of instructional setting in federally mandated tutoring. Working paper presented at the 2009 American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA.
8. Burch, P., Good, A., Heinrich, C.J., Meyer, R.H., & Whitten, G. (2007, August). Summary of preliminary findings: Milwaukee Public Schools supplemental education services evaluation. Report to Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
9. Burch, P., Steinberg, M., & Donovan, J. (2007). Supplemental educational services and NCLB: Policy assumptions, market practices, emerging issues. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 29, 115-133.
10. Casserly, M. (2004). Choice and supplemental services in America's great city schools. In F. M. Hess & C. E. Finn (Eds.), Leaving no child behind? Options for kids in failing schools (pp. 191-212). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
11. Chatterji, M., Kwon, Y.A., & Sng, C. (2006). Gathering evidence on an after-school supplemental instruction program: Design challenges and early findings in light of NCLB. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 14(12), 1-44.
12. Chicago Public Schools. (2007). The 2007 supplemental educational services program: Year 4 summative evaluation. Chicago: Chicago Public Schools Office of Extended Learning Opportunities, Research, Evaluation and Accountability.
13. Dynarski, M., James-Burdumy, S., Moore, M., Rosenberg, L., Deke, J., & Mansfield, W. (2004). When schools stay open late: The national evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program: New findings. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
14. Education Industry Association. (2007, August 24). Supplemental education services (SES) and the 2007-2008 school year: The No Child Left Behind program can make a difference for more than 3 million students nationwide. Rockville, MD: Author.
15. Elbaum, B., Vaughn, S., Hughes, M.T., & Moody, S.W. (2000). How effective are one-to-one tutoring programs in reading for elementary students at risk for reading failure? A meta-analysis of the intervention research. Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(4), 605-619.
16. Farkas, G., & Durham, R. (2006). The role of tutoring in standards-based reform (Working paper). Department of Sociology and Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University).
17. Government Accountability Office. (2006). No Child Left Behind Act: Education actions needed to improve local implementation and state evaluation of supplemental educational services (GAO Report 06-758). Washington, DC: Author.
18. Heckman, J.J., Ichimura, H., Todd, P., (1998). Matching as an econometric evaluation estimator. The Review of Economic Studies, 65(2), 261-294.
19. Heckman, J.J., Lalonde, R.J., & Smith, J.A. (1999). The economics and econometrics of active labor market programs. In O. Ashenfelter & D. Card (Eds.), Handbook of labor economics (pp. 1865- 2097). New York: Elsevier.
20. Heinrich, C.J., & Whitten, G.W. (2006). Supplemental education services (SES) in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS): Focus group report. Madison: Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
21. Lauer, P.A., Akiba, M., Wilkerson, S.B., Athorp, H.S., Snow, D., & Martin-Glenn, M.L. (2006). Out-of-school-time programs: A meta-analysis of effects for at-risk students. Review of Educational Research, 76, 275-313.
22. Lockwood, J.R., & McCaffrey, D.F. (2007). Controlling for individual heterogeneity in longitudinal models, with applications to student achievement. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 1(1), 223-252.
23. Lou, Y., Abrami, P.C., Spence, J.C., Poulsen, C., Chambers, B., & d'Apollonia, S. (1996). Within-class grouping: A meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research, 66, 423-458.
24. McCaffrey, D.F., Han, B., & Lockwood, J.R. (2008, February 28-29). From data to bonuses: A case study of the issues related to awarding teachers pay on the basis of their students' progress. Prepared for the conference on Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education, Nashville, TN.
25. Meyer, R.H., & Christian, M. (2008, February 28-29). Value-added and other methods for measuring school performance. Prepared for the conference on Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education, Nashville, TN.
26. Mueser, P.R., Troske, K.R., & Gorislavsky, A. (2007). Using state administrative data to measure program performance. Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(4), 761-783.
27. Padilla, C., & Lopez-Torkos, A. (2006, April 7-11). Early implementation of NCLB Title I choice and supplemental services provisions. Center for Education Policy, SRI International. Paper presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
28. Peterson, P. (2005). Making up the rules as you play the game. Education Next, 5(4), 42-49.
29. Rickles, J.H., & Barnhart, M.K. (2007). The impact of supplemental educational services participation on student achievement: 2005-06 (Publication No. 352). Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Unified School District Program Evaluation and Research Branch, Planning, Assessment and Research Division.
30. Ryan, S., & Fatani, S. (2005). SES tutoring programs: An evaluation of the second year-Part one of a two part report (Policy report). Chicago: Office of Research, Evaluation and Accountability, Chicago Public Schools.
31. Steinberg, M.S. (2006). Private educational services: Whom does the market leave behind? PolicyMatters, 4(1), 17-22.
32. Sunderman, G.M., & Kim, J. (2004). Expansion of federal power in American education: Federal-state relationships under the No Child Left Behind Act, year one. Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
33. Vandell, D.L., Reisner, E.R., Brown, B.B., Dadisman, K., Pierce, K.M., Lee, D., & Pechman, E.M. (2005). The study of promising after-school programs: Examination of intermediate outcomes in year 2. Madison: Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
34. Vegari, S. (2007). Federalism and market-based education policy: The supplemental educational services mandate. American Journal of Education, 113, 311-339.
35. Wilde, E.T., & Hollister, R. (2007). How close is close enough? Evaluating propensity score matching using data from a class size reduction experiment. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 26(3), 455-478.
36. Zimmer, R., Gill, B., Razquin, P., Booker, K., & Lockwood, J.R., III. (2007). State and local implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume I-Title I school choice, supplemental educational services, and student achievement. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.