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Econometric Methods for Research in Education

Meghir, Costas - 2010

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

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Identifying Effective Classroom Practices Using Student Achievement Data

Kane, Thomas J. - 2010

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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Publicly Provided Education

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2002

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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The Impact of Public School Choice : Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice

Campos, Christopher; Kearns, Caitlin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

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Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education

Boozer, Michael A. - 1992

and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school …

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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2005

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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Free to Choose : Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2015

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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What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City

Kane, Thomas J. - 2006

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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What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers

Jacob, Brian A. - 2005

the number of parent requests for individual elementary school teachers along with information on teacher attributes …

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Principals as Agents : Subjective Performance Measurement in Education

Jacob, Brian A. - 2005

In this paper, we compare subjective principal assessments of teachers to the traditional determinants of teacher compensation ¡V education and experience ¡V and another potential compensation mechanism -- value-added measures of teacher effectiveness based on student achievement gains. We...

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