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disadvantaged backgrounds, and children spending the entire day at school; they do not depend on the choice of the reference group …Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school … age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between …
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expectation that leads teachers and students to shirk in school to devote more attention to tutoring. In basic education, teacher … education system has fostered the growth of a diverse tutoring market. In general secondary school, tutoring has become a social … pressure is a major motivation for public school students to take tutoring. In order to reduce the prevalence of tutoring and …
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and parents' education have no predictive power. There is some evidence that principals' rating of teachers and value …We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There … effectiveness, while educational qualifications, training, experience and personality traits have no predictive power. Relative to …
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This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed … school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children …'s probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a …
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We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities … admission for their children to the compulsory preschool class. Our results reveal that Swedish schools discriminated against … children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …
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equitable quality education for all.” Many children with disabilities in low-income countries, however, continue to be excluded …. Realizing the right to inclusive education for children with disabilities requires policies and practices that are tailored to … and key informant interviews), this chapter explores the inclusiveness, equality, and quality of education for children …
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persisted. In the UK, sexual minorities who experienced frequent school-age bullying faced a 32% chance of experiencing frequent …%, respectively lower job satisfaction than their heterosexual counterparts. Additionally, bullying against sexual minorities has … workplace bullying. In relation to job exclusions, in OECD countries, gay men and lesbian women were found to experience 39% and …
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group discussion and lecturing used in their school, including a battery of individual, teacher, and school controls, as … well as random intercepts by school. For robustness we use instrumental variables and methods to account for school …
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(i) six training sessions during school breaks, ii) exchange visits each term where teachers provided feedback to their … peers, and (iii) outreach and support from NGO staff at least twice per year. The program increased teachers' use of active …
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This paper investigates the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on learning outcomes of secondary school … deviation over an academic year. This negative effect of biased teachers is significant only for male teachers. The effect is … plausible mechanism, we show that biased teachers negatively affect girls' attitude towards math as compared to boys. Unlike …
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