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Under the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), schools serving sufficiently high-poverty populations may enroll their …, focusing on the use of suspensions. We use school discipline measures from the Civil Rights Data Collection and rely on the … timing of pilot implementation of CEP across states to assess how disciplinary infractions evolve within a school as it …
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Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD …
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We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani …
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Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd …, such as school closures and vouchers …
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This paper contributes to what is known about the impact of school quality, by documenting its effect on the incomes of … Black South Africans, using data from the 1996 South African census and two national surveys of school quality. South Africa … provides an interesting laboratory for studying the impact of school quality on labor market outcomes. Under the Apartheid …
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by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested … successes, public school incentives differ from those of private schools …
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racial composition and enrollment in all schools and school districts in 238 metropolitan areas. The study finds that white … losses appear to be spurred both by interracial contact in districts where their children attend school and by the …
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In this paper, we show that the election of a new school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise …, including via the manipulation of attendance zones, rather than improvements in school quality (as measured by test score value … Democratic school board candidates. These results suggest that partisan affiliation is correlated with private motivations for …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high … school student survivors as adults in their twenties and early thirties. Our data on school shooting events is from a recent …, comprehensive database of school shootings compiled by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The analytic dataset contains …
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