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Acculturation Differences in Communicating Information About Child Mental Health Between Latino Parents and Primary Care Providers
Cook, Benjamin Lê; Brown, Jonathan D.; Loder, Stephen; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
Significant Latino-white disparities in youth mental health care access and quality exist yet little is known about Latino parents’ communication with providers about youth mental health and the role of acculturation in influencing this communication. We estimated regression models to...
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Low Skilled Immigration and Work-Fertility Tradeoffs Among High Skilled US Natives.
Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010
This article examines the impact of low skilled immigration on the childbearing and labor supply decisions of high-education … attributable to immigrant workers arises due to reductions in cost of childrearing. Whereas most immigration research focuses on … the reduced employment prospects of natives, this paper considers the potential benefits of immigration to high skilled …
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Preparing for Productive Careers: Students' Participation In and Use of Career-Focused Learning Activities
Haimson, Joshua; Deke, John - Mathematica Policy Research - 2003
Helping students formulate career goals and prepare for successful careers continues to be an important educational objective pursued by many high schools. This report examines the challenges faced by a recent cohort of high school students as they sought to define and achieve their goals, the...
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What Do Effective Teachers of Inner-City Children have in Common?
Murnane, Richard J.; Phillips, Barbara R. - Mathematica Policy Research - 1981
This paper investigates the extent to which variables describing the classroom behavior of teachers and variables describing teachers' backgrounds and training explain differences in the effectiveness of teachers in improving the vocabulary skills of inner-city black children in four elementary...
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How Do Test Scores at the Floor and Ceiling Affect Value-Added Estimates?
Resch, Alexandra; Isenberg, Eric - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
Some educators are concerned that students with test scores at the bottom or top of the test score distribution will negatively affect the value-added estimates of teachers of those students.
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Schooling in the Workplace: Increasing the Scale and Quality of Work-Based Learning
Haimson, Joshua; Bellotti, Jeanne - Mathematica Policy Research - 2001
Examines work-based learning activities in high school, noting that a diverse mix of students—including both high- and low-achievers—participates in some work-based activity. However, females are more likely to do so than males. Also notes that internships arranged through school...
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What Are Error Rates for Classifying Teacher and School Performance Using Value-Added Models?
Schochet, Peter Z.; Chiang, Hanley S. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
This article addresses likely error rates for measuring teacher and school performance in the upper elementary grades using value-added models applied to student test score gain data. Using formulas based on ordinary least squares and empirical Bayes estimators, error rates for comparing a...
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Falling Behind: Characteristics of Students in Federally Funded Dropout Prevention Programs. Part Two: Restructuring Projects
Gleason, Philip M.; Dynarski, Mark - Mathematica Policy Research - 1995
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Spring 2013 School Administrator Survey
DesRoches, David; Borradaile, Kelley - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
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Impacts of Five Expeditionary Learning Middle Schools on Academic Achievement
Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Haimson, Joshua - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
In the first rigorous study of the impacts of Expeditionary Learning (EL) model schools, Mathematica found that EL middle school students perform better in reading and math than their counterparts in other public schools.
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