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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
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School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools
Card, David - 2010
competition between the systems leads to improved efficiency. Building on a simple model of school choice, we argue that … committed to a particular system. To measure the local determinants of cross-system competition we study the effects of school …. We then test whether schools that face greater cross-system competition have higher productivity, as measured by test …
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The Competitive Effects of Online Education
Deming, David - 2016
We study the impact of online degree programs on the market for U.S. higher education. Online degree programs increase the competitiveness of local education markets by providing additional options in areas that previously only had a small number of brick-and-mortar schools. We show that local...
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School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England : Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation
Pathak, Parag A. - 2011
In Fall 2009, officials from Chicago Public Schools changed their assignment mechanism for coveted spots at selective college preparatory high schools midstream. After asking about 14,000 applicants to submit their preferences for schools under one mechanism, the district asked them re-submit...
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School Turnarounds : Evidence from the 2009 Stimulus
Dee, Thomas S. - 2012
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the nation's "persistently lowest achieving" public schools (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) but required schools accepting these awards to implement a...
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The Effects of School Reform Under Nclb Waivers : Evidence from Focus Schools in Kentucky
Bonilla, Sade - 2017
Under waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the federal government required states to identify schools where targeted subgroups of students have the lowest achievement and to implement reforms in these “Focus Schools.” In this study, we examine the Focus School reforms in the state...
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Differentiated Accountability and Education Production : Evidence from Nclb Waivers
Hemelt, Steven W. - 2017
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education granted states the opportunity to apply for waivers from the core requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In exchange, states implemented systems of differentiated accountability in which they identified and intervened in their lowest-performing...
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General Education vs. Vocational Training : Evidence from an Economy in Transition
Malamud, Ofer - 2010
This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758605
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No Child Left Behind : Estimating the Impact on Choices and Student Outcomes
Hastings, Justine S. - 2010
Several recent education reform measures, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), couple school choice with accountability measures to allow parents of children in under-performing schools the opportunity to choose higher-performing schools. We use the introduction of NCLB in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760220
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Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement : An Investigation of Differential Performance on Naep and State Assessments
Jacob, Brian - 2010
This paper explores the phenomenon referred to as test score inflation, which occurs when achievement gains on quot;high-stakesquot; exams outpace improvements on quot;low-stakesquot; tests. The first part of the paper documents the extent to which student performance trends on state assessments...
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