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-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months … language compared to identically-aged students in the same villages in 2019. Two-thirds of this deficit was made up within 6 …
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The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...
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This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...
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average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …
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introductory microeconomics between one semester in which students were randomly assigned into the formats and another semester … when students were allowed to choose their format. In each semester we offered the same course with the sections taught at … effect of format. Students in the compressed format of the randomized arm of the study scored -0.19 standard deviations less …
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To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...
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Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African...
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Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment … struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some students may face initial challenges, by … disadvantages, these programs may enable students to bridge the gap and catch up to their peers. In this study, we examine the …
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out from tertiary education: SGL reduced the first year dropout rate by 6.8% for students enrolled in five-year colleges … incentivized higher education institutions to retain students at the expense of not securing the quality of education …
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, we show that this law change had a large negative impact on the college attendance of students with drug convictions. On … enrollment by about two years, and we also present suggestive evidence that affected students were less likely to ever enroll in … college. Students living in urban areas and those whose mothers did not attend college appear to be the most affected by these …
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