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This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...
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Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect …
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recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced … academic and vocational achievement and on their labour market outcomes. For those pupils who enter the UTC at a non …-standard transition age of 14, UTCs dramatically reduce their academic achievement on national exams at age 16. However, for students who …
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Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a … masks large heterogeneity; in small schools, which would have no choice over which teachers would be involved, we find … negative impacts of the training (0.1-0.18SD), whereas we find positive impacts in larger schools (0.06-0.17SD). We conclude …
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The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...
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We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced 'maturity testing' to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after...
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We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using administrative student register data and exploiting the...
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suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …
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Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately …"Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates-to approximately …
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better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background …
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