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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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Information and Employee Evaluation : Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2010

The evidence that productivity varies greatly across teachers has given rise to the idea that student achievement data should be included in performance evaluation, despite limited empirical evidence on subjective evaluation or the use of objective performance measures in U.S. public schools. In...

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Knowledge, Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions

Cascio, Elizabeth - 2012

even as its effect on knowledge does not. We evaluate this hypothesis by fitting a model of education production to …

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Parental Preferences and School Competition : Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

Hastings, Justine S. - 2006

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We use parental rankings of their top three choices...

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School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

between grades 3 and 8. Moreover, non-random sample attrition for school changers and much higher rates of special education …

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Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery

Hastings, Justine S. - 2010

This paper combines a model of parental school choice with randomized school lotteries in order to understand the effects of being assigned to a first-choice school on academic outcomes. We outline a simple framework in which those who place the highest weight on academics when choosing a school...

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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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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

Hanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G.; Taylor, Lori L. - 2021

This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory findings in the debate over school resources and school effectiveness by highlighting the role of aggregation in the presence of omitted variables bias. While data aggregation for well-specified linear models yields unbiased parameter estimates,...

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