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This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes … including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents … families in higher-income schools …
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expectations during high school and beyond. The results indicate that expectations rose for all students with the greatest … data demonstrate that the majority (about 60 percent) of students update their expectations at least once between eighth …
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This paper explores the phenomenon referred to as test score inflation, which occurs when achievement gains on "high-stakes" exams outpace improvements on "low-stakes" tests. The first part of the paper documents the extent to which student performance trends on state assessments differ from...
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achievement. Evaluating the impact of such programs is complicated by the fact that a highly select sample of students takes …-taking, and credit accumulation. This is true despite the fact that those students who win the lotteries attend better high …
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The recent federal education bill, No Child Left Behind, requires states to test students in grades three to eight each … incentives along a variety of dimensions -- by increasing special education placements, preemptively retaining students and …
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have relied more on remedial programs such as summer school and grade retention to help low-achieving students meet minimum … achievement for third grade students and has little effect on math achievement for sixth grade students …
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reading performance of elementary students. We find that marginal increases in-service training have no statistically or … not be sufficient to increase the achievement of elementary school children in high poverty schools …
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