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What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City

Kane, Thomas J. - 2006

We use six years of data on student test performance to evaluate the effectiveness of certified, uncertified, and alternatively certified teachers in the New York City public schools. On average, the certification status of a teacher has at most small impacts on student test performance....

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School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment

Deming, David J. - 2011

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college attainment among lottery winners who attend their first choice school. Using rich administrative data on peers,...

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Have Income-Based Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed?

Hashim, Shirin A. - 2020

Population survey to impute income for dependent children by race, mother's education, urbanicity and state and then calculated …Since 1990, U.S. policymakers have worked to close gaps in academic achievement by income and race (e.g. with school … finance reform and school accountability systems) even as rising income inequality and income-based residential segregation …

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Information and Employee Evaluation : Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2010

which school principals were provided with estimates of the performance of individual teachers in raising their students …

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Federal Pandemic Relief and Academic Recovery

Dewey, Dan C.; Fahle, Erin M.; Kane, Thomas J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more than 5000 districts in 29 states. We rely on several plausibly exogenous sources of variation in federal grants: differences in state Title I funding formulas, estimation error in...

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