The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational …, we find that more effective schools are able to attract and hire more effective teachers from other schools when … vacancies arise. Second, more effective schools assign novice teachers to students in a more equitable fashion. Third, teachers …

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We compare the link between parents’ schooling and their children’s college-entrance test scores in Israeli kibbutzim … parents’ schooling and their children’s test scores—roughly three-fifths its size in the general population. This confirms the … importance of non-pecuniary channels of parental influence on education and provides an informative reference point on the …

same tools of thought and action are no less critical to the advance of education than to medicine, agriculture, psychology …, or transportation. There has been impressive growth in the use of experimental methods in education over the past decade … examining the impact of their policies and practices; better preservice training for education practitioners in the logic and …

Randomized trials are a common way to provide rigorous evidence on the impacts of education programs. This article … discusses the trade-offs associated with study designs that involve random assignment of students within schools and describes … rewarding in terms of generating useful evidence for policy. © 2012 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

earmarked for schools results in a significant decrease in the percent of nonwhite students enrolled in Massachusetts school …

plan was higher among teachers with advanced degrees, math and science teachers, and teachers in charter schools. It was … lower among special education teachers and especially among black and Hispanic teachers. There was only a slight … roughly 2 percentage points less likely to choose the DC option. © 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

graduates from advantaged backgrounds. © 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

, raising questions about institutions’ power to influence this behavior. Many of the schools at risk of not meeting student … encouraging access to higher education. © 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

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