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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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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. We construct country-level measures of teacher cognitive skills using unique...

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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 A. - 2016

It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates various components of turnover effects. The evidence at first seems contradictory, as the quality 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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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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The Market for Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; O'Brien, Daniel M.; … - 2021

Much of education policy focuses on improving teacher quality, but most policies lack strong research support. We use …

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Disruption Versus Tiebout Improvement : The Costs and Benefits of Switching Schools

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

Most students change schools at some point in their academic careers, but some change very frequently and some schools experience a great deal of turnover. Many researchers, teachers, and administrators argue that mobility harms students, particularly disadvantaged students in high turnover,...

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