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Instruction Time, Classroom Quality, and Academic Achievement

Rivkin, Steven G. - 2013

Many countries, American jurisdictions and charter schools have recently embraced longer school days or more time devoted to core academic classes. Recent research generally supports the notion that additional time raises achievement, though difficulties isolating an exogenous source of...

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Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement

Dee, Thomas S. - 2009

In the United States, girls outperform boys in measures of reading achievement while generally underperforming in science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects)....

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Teachers, Race and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment

Dee, Thomas S. - 2022

Recommendations for the aggressive recruitment of minority teachers are based on hypothesized role-model effects for minority students as well as evidence of racial biases among non-minority teachers. However, prior empirical studies have found little or no association between exposure to an...

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The Evolution of Charter School Quality

Baude, Patrick - 2014

Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of...

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Dynamic effects of teacher turnover on the quality of instruction

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Rivkin, Steven G.; Schiman, Jeffrey C. - In: Economics of education review 55 (2016), pp. 132-148

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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2022

Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools. Unique matched panel data from...

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What is the Tradeoff between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality?

Jepsen, Christopher; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of California's class size reduction program on teacher quality and student achievement in an effort to gain a comprehensive understanding of the impact of a large-scale decrease in class size. It uses year-to-year differences in class size generated by...

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The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

Dee, Thomas S. - 2009

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act compelled states to design school-accountability systems based on annual student assessments. The effect of this Federal legislation on the distribution of student achievement is a highly controversial but centrally important question. This study presents...

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Does Special Education Raise Academic Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2021

While special education has become a hotly debated issue of school policy, most of the discussion has centered on the … such programs or possible interactions with the provision of regular education. This study, building on the unique data of … the Harvard/UTD Texas Schools Project provides direct evidence on the effectiveness of special education programs. The …

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Competition and the quality of public schools

Dee, Thomas S. - In: Economics of education review 17 (1998) 4, pp. 419-427

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