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Dual Language Education and Student Achievement

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  • Andrew Bibler

    (Department of Economics University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV 89154)

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Two-way dual language (DL) classrooms enroll students of two different language backgrounds and teach curriculum in both languages. I estimate the effect of attending a DL school on student achievement using school choice lotteries from Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina, finding local average treatment effects of 0.04 and 0.05 standard deviations per year in math and reading, respectively. Attending a DL school increased test scores for English learners (ELs) and for non-ELs by a similar magnitude. The positive effects of winning the lottery to attend a DL school are substantially larger than the average effect of assignment to other magnet schools, and several peer and school characteristics are ruled out as explanations for the increased test scores. There is no statistically significant evidence that attending a DL school changed the probability of having EL status throughout elementary school.

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  • Andrew Bibler, 2021. "Dual Language Education and Student Achievement," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 16(4), pages 634-658, Fall.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:edfpol:v:16:y:2021:i:4:p:634-658
    DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00320
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