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Disruption, Achievement and the Heterogeneous Benefits of Smaller Classes

McKee, Graham J. - 2010

the Tennessee STAR data. The estimates show that students in higher poverty schools and with greater learning aptitude …

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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...

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Does Special Education Raise Academic Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1998

aggregate costs of providing mandated programs for disabled children. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of … average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …

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School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2006

Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Our results, based on both Texas Schools Project (TSP) administrative data and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey (ECLS), differ noticeably from other recent analyses of the black-white...

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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1998

Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper … systematic factors a negative impact of initial years of teaching and a positive effect of smaller class sizes for low income … children in earlier grades but these effects are very small relative to the effects of overall teacher quality differences …

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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1996

This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory findings in the debate over school resources and school effectiveness by highlighting the role of aggregation in the presence of omitted variables bias. While data aggregation for well-specified linear models yields unbiased parameter estimates,...

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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures made available to supervisors, the board of directors and other stakeholders, and these structures almost certainly influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence...

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Instruction Time, Classroom Quality, and Academic Achievement

Rivkin, Steven G. - 2013

quality of instruction, the classroom environment, and the rate at which students translate classroom time into added …

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The Lasting Impacts of Middle School Principals

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Morgan, Andrew J.; Rivkin, Steven G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using rich Texas administrative data, we estimate the impact of middle school principals on post-secondary schooling, employment, and criminal justice outcomes. The results highlight the importance of school leadership, though striking differences emerge in the relative importance of different...

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