Outliers: The Story of Success · chapter 9 · id outliers-c9-01-kipp-knowledge-is-power-progra

“KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) schools demonstrate that longer school hours and a longer school year can close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students, supporting the thesis that effort and time-on-task determine outcomes.”

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Tuttle et al. (2013), Mathematica Policy Research -- KIPP lottery studyDOI registry: valid

KIPP students who won admission lotteries outperformed control groups in math by 0.36 standard deviations and reading by 0.21 standard deviations after 3 years.

Criticism of charter school studies -- selection and attrition effectsDOI registry: valid

KIPP schools have higher attrition rates than traditional public schools. Students who leave tend to be lower-performing, creating survivorship bias in outcome data. Lottery studies mitigate but do not fully eliminate this.

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