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Recent research has confirmed both the importance of teachers in producing student achievement growth and in the variability across teachers in the ability to do that. Such findings raise the stakes on our ability to identify effective teachers and teaching practices. This paper combines...
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of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because direct measures of outcomes are available, making it is...
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’ choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …
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A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions …. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand … to these results. We evaluate the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a school voucher plan providing public funds for …
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …
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and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school …
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on primary- and middle-school data from Israel, I find very strong evidence that two important elements of teaching … comparison with that of other potential interventions such as reducing class size or increasing school hours of instruction …
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We use six years of data on student test performance to evaluate the effectiveness of certified, uncertified, and alternatively certified teachers in the New York City public schools. On average, the certification status of a teacher has at most small impacts on student test performance....
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students to Korean middle school classrooms and show that the female students perform substantially better on standardized …
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