Evaluating the Impact of Tennessee’s Achievement School District: 3rd Annual Report to the Walton Family Foundation

Abstract

Because the state of Tennessee is continually refining the state’s policies for turning around low performing schools and because many states are implementing or considering similar approaches, it is important to examine the effectiveness of the ASD and to better understand the movement of teachers and students into and out of ASD schools. Our research team, over the course of three years, has addressed the following questions:

1. What are the characteristics of teachers leaving and entering schools taken over by the ASD, including measures of quality?
2. What is the nature of student in-migration and out-migration to and from ASD schools?
3. What drives employment decisions of ASD teachers?
4. What initial effect has ASD had on student achievement?

Suggested Citation

Henry, G., Zimmer, R., Kho, A., & Pham, L. (2017). Evaluating the impact of Tennessee’s Achievement School District: 3rd annual report to the Walton Family Foundation. (Tennessee Education Research Alliance Working Paper).