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The American High School Graduation Rate : Trends and Levels

Heckman, James J. - 2007

This paper uses multiple data sources and a unified methodology to estimate the trends and levels of the U.S. high school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the...

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Do Teachers' Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Matter? : Evidence from NELS88

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1994

ethnicity, per se, influence students from both the same and different race, gender, and ethnic groups. In contrast to much of … objectively how much their students learn. On balance, we find that teachers' race, gender, and ethnicity, per se, are much more …

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