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Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality : What Matters and What Doesn't?

Currie, Janet - 2003

Critics of Head Start contend that many programs spend too much money on programs extraneous to education. On the other hand, Head Start advocates argue that severely disadvantaged children need a broad range of services. Given the available evidence, it has been impossible to assess the...

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The Impact of No Child Left Behind's Accountability Sanctions on School Performance : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from North Carolina

Ahn, Thomas - 2014

strongest positive effects associate with the ultimate sanction: leadership and management changes associated with school …

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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India

Borkum, Evan - 2012

We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …

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The Aftermath of Accelerating Algebra : Evidence from a District Policy Initiative

Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2012

of accelerated entry into algebra on student performance in math courses as students progress through high school …

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School Turnarounds : Evidence from the 2009 Stimulus

Dee, Thomas - 2012

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the … nation's "persistently lowest achieving" public schools (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) but … required schools accepting these awards to implement a federally prescribed school-reform model. Schools that met the "lowest …

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Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes?

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2012

This paper presents an analysis of the longer-run effects of a college-preparatory program implemented in inner-city schools that provided teacher training in addition to payments to eleventh- and twelfth- grade students and their teachers for passing scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams....

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School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries : A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010

Glewwe, Paul W. - 2011

schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn while in school. This paper examines studies published between 1990 … and 2010, in both the education literature and the economics literature, to investigate which specific school and teacher … characteristics, if any, appear to have strong positive impacts on learning and time in school. Starting with over 9,000 studies, 79 …

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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read in School : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011

We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0.13 standard deviations. The effect is still present three...

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Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement

Bui, Sa A. - 2011

In this paper we determine how the receipt of gifted and talented (GT) services affects student outcomes. We identify the causal relationship by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility requirements and find that for students on the margin there is no discernable impact on achievement even...

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Education as Liberation?

Friedman, Willa - 2011

Scholars have long speculated about education's political impacts, variously arguing that it promotes modern or pro-democratic attitudes; that it instills acceptance of existing authority; and that it empowers the disadvantaged to challenge authority. To avoid endogeneity bias, if schooling...

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