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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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Validating Teacher Effect Estimates Using Changes in Teacher Assignments in Los Angeles

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew - 2014

In a widely cited study, Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a; hereafter CFR) evaluate the degree of bias in teacher value-added estimates using a novel "teacher switching" research design with data from New York City. They conclude that there is little to no bias in their estimates. Using the same...

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Improving School Accountability Measures

Kane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas - 2022

A growing number of states are using annual school-level test scores as part of their school accountability systems. We highlight an under-appreciated weakness of that approach the imprecision of school-level test score means -- and propose a method for better discerning signal from noise in...

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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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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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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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Do Differences in School Quality Generate Heterogeneity in the Causal Returns to Education?

DeCicca, Philip; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2022

education. An implicit assumption is that more time in school may translate into greater earnings potential. None of these …Estimating the returns to education remains an active area of research amongst applied economists. Most studies that … estimate the causal return to education exploit changes in schooling and/or labor laws to generate exogenous differences in …

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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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New Evidence About Brown V. Board of Education : The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

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

integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school …

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