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"We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …
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We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …
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We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …
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Holzer and Baum's recent book, 'Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students,' provides an … the underlying lack of preparedness and motivation of college students. I argue that making mandatory some existing …
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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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We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly … increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …
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