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This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...
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The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of...
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This paper describes a field experiment in Oklahoma City Public Schools in which students were provided with free … cellular phones and daily information about the link between human capital and future outcomes via text message. Students …' reported beliefs about the relationship between education and outcomes were influenced by treatment, and treatment students …
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After decades of narrowing, the achievement gap between black and white school children widened in the 1990s - a period …
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be more effective because students do not know the educational production function, and thus have little clue how to turn …
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one agent (students) for various inputs in the education production function (i.e. attendance, behavior, interim … assessments, homework, and uniforms). In Houston, TX, incentives were "vertical" - provided to multiple agents (parents, teachers …, and students) for a single input (math objectives). On outcomes for which we provided direct incentives, there were large …
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In previous research, a substantial gap in test scores between White and Black students persists, even after …
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achievement is -0.042 standard deviations in math and -0.034 standard deviations in reading, per year. Students enrolled in … this, specialized teachers report providing less attention to individual students (relative to non-specialized teachers …
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High-performing charter schools can significantly increase the test scores of poor urban students. It is unclear … Harlem Children's Zone. Six years after the random admissions lottery, youth offered admission to the Promise Academy middle …
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