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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …
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Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
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students in the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the country. Enrollment dropped … precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and by … another 7 percent from fall 2020 to fall 2021. The California Community College system lost nearly 300,000 students over this …
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effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …
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Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but … control experiment in which more than one thousand children attending grades 6-10 across 15 different schools and 5 school … districts in California were randomly given computers to use at home. Children in the treatment group are more likely to report …
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