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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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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I : Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

Chetty, Raj - 2013

Are teachersʼ impacts on studentsʼ test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value-added (VA) measures provide unbiased estimates of teachersʼ causal impacts on student achievement. We test for bias...

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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers Ii : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

Chetty, Raj - 2013

Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has sparked debate partly because of a lack of evidence on whether high value-added (VA) teachers who raise students' test scores improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school...

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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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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

Chetty, Raj - 2012

from 4 to 8. On average, a one standard deviation improvement in teacher VA in a single grade raises earnings by about 1 …

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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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