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High Schools That Work and college preparedness: Measuring the model's impact on mathematics and science pipeline progression
Miller, Luke C.; Mittleman, Joel - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1116-1135
The High Schools That Work school improvement initiative is the nation's largest comprehensive school reform model with over a thousand schools adopting its framework. The initiative's premise is that all students can meet the demands of a college preparatory curriculum if provided the right...
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Leadership effects: school principals and student outcomes
Coelli, Michael; Green, David A. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 1, pp. 92-109
We identify the effect of individual high school principals on graduation rates and English exam scores using an administrative data set of grade 12 students in BC Canada. Many principals were rotated across schools by districts, permitting isolation of the effect of principals from the effect...
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Is a good elementary teacher always good? Assessing teacher performance estimates across subjects
Goldhaber, Dan; Cowan, James; Walch, Joe - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 216-228
In most elementary schools, teachers are responsible for several subjects. Various personnel policies, such as evaluating teachers based on value-added estimates aggregated across subjects or departmentalizing teachers, implicitly make assumptions about how closely teacher effectiveness is...
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Do you get what you pay for with school-based health programs? Evidence from a child nutrition experiment in rural China
Sylvia, Sean; Luo, Renfu; Zhang, Linxiu; Shi, Yaojiang; … - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 1-12
increased school emphasis on health promotion affects academic performance. Although education and health promotion are …
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The influence of price on school enrollment under Uganda's policy of free primary education
Lincove, Jane Arnold - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 799-811
price of school. Uganda's universal education policy offered free tuition, fees, and supplies to up to four children per … are opportunities to expand education through targeted cash transfer and subsidy policies. …
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Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does Mission Sucre have a role to play?
Gonzalez, Naihobe; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1348-1369
, President Hugo Chávez implemented several education reforms. We focus on a major university education reform known as Mission … Sucre and its potential impact on returns to university education. First, we show that returns to education decreased … a 2.7 percentage point decline in returns to university education for non-Mission Sucre students in the 23–28 age cohort. …
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Reward or punishment? Class size and teacher quality
Barrett, Nathan; Toma, Eugenia F. - In: Economics of Education Review 35 (2013) C, pp. 41-52
The high stakes testing and school accountability components of our K-12 education system create an incentive for … teachers do have larger classes. This result holds implications for prior policy studies of class size as well as for education …
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The determinants of teacher mobility: Evidence using Italian teachers’ transfer applications
Barbieri, Gianna; Rossetti, Claudio; Sestito, Paolo - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1430-1444
Of particular importance for education policy-makers is the possibility that teacher mobility adversely affects the …
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Measuring the earnings returns to lifelong learning in the UK
Blanden, Jo; Buscha, Franz; Sturgis, Patrick; Urwin, Peter - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 4, pp. 501-514
, following the completion of the first period of continuous full-time education. Using data from the British Household Panel …
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Estimating the impact of relative expected grade on student evaluations of teachers
Ewing, Andrew M. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 1, pp. 141-154
Grade inflation over the past few decades has been a concern for many universities. Course evaluation scores are known to be positively correlated with students’ expected grades, and this paper tests whether or not there is an incentive for the instructor to “buy” higher evaluation scores...
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