School closure as a strategy to remedy low performance

Sunderman, Gail L.

Heys, Erin J. Coghlan.
Mintrop, Rick.

National Education Policy Center (University of Colorado Boulder)

2017

National Education Policy Center

Boulder, Colo.

This brief investigates whether closing schools and transferring students for the purpose of remedying low performance is an option educational decision makers should pursue. The logic of closing schools in response to low student performance goes like this: By closing low-performing schools and sending students to better-performing ones, student achievement will improve. The threat of closure may motivate low-performing schools (and their districts) to improve in order to preempt school closures. The relatively limited evidence base suggests that school closures are not a promising strategy for remedying low student performance.

Gail L. Sunderman, Erin Coghlan, Rick Mintrop.
"May 2017."
Includes bibliographical references, (pages 15-19).
Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed July 2022)

School improvement programs
School closings--Evaluation
Education and state
Public schools

United States

1 online resource (19 pages)

eng

UCB4/11.2/C62/2017/INTERNET

http://hdl.handle.net/11629/co:36303

1336973557

2022-07-27T19:01:50.847Z