Better schools or different students? The impact of immigration reform on school-level student achievement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12007778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margarita Pivovarova (0000-0002-2965-7423, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 37100, Mail Code: 3151, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA, corresponding author), Robert Vagi (University of Minnesota, 3 Morris Hall, 100 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 422-439 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-3319 • E-ISSN: 1873-5355 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.soscij.2019.05.014 |
| OpenAlex | W2951758932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
This study examines the consequences of two controversial Arizona immigration laws, the Legal Arizona Workers Act and SB 1070, on school enrollment and student achievement trends. In the period after implementation of both policies, Arizona public schools have demonstrated growth in student achievement on standardized tests arguably due to the state education policies. We propose an alternative explanation and show that the observed achievement gains in schools resulted both due to academic improvement and partially because of the attrition of the low achieving students from certain type of schools. Using data from Arizona public schools we find that after the immigration laws were enacted, schools with initially higher shares of Hispanic students lost about 42 more Hispanic students on average and at the same time experienced greater increase in average test scores compared to schools with initially low Hispanic enrollment. We argue that changes in average test scores partially reflected the changes in school demographic composition as a result of the implementation of restrictive immigration policies
Academic achievement · Achievement test · Attrition · Demographic economics · Economics · Immigration · Mathematics education · Political science · Standardized test · State (computer science · Student achievement · Test (biology · Law · Mathematics · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
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Impact of Arizona’s SB 1070 Immigration Law on Utilization of Health Care and Public Assistance Among Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers and Their Mother Figures
The academic trajectories of immigrant youths
Impacts of Arizona’s SB 1070 on Mexican American Students’ Stress, School Attachment, and Grades
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |