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Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …
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Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably … find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of … students who get into a better school help their kids less with homework, and (c) kids who go to a slightly better school …
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of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit …
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of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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The private sector has provided investment funding and services for the United Kingdom public sector schools through output-based contracts since 1996. Under these contracts firms provide accommodation and related services, while teachers, still employed by the public sector, provide the core...
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of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is the leading principle of the Dutch education system...
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