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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a … different school and, separately, of shifts in peer characteristics. We rule out all but substantively small effects of … transitioning to a different school as a result of reassignment on test scores, course grades and chronic absenteeism. In contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210113
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How Informal Mentoring by Teachers, Counselors, and Coaches Supports Students' Long-Run Academic Success
Kraft, Matthew A.; Bolves, Alexander J.; Hurd, Noelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
individual characteristics and bounding exercises for selection on unobservables. Smaller class sizes and a school culture where … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287357
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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004
The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468102
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421182
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Teachers' Use of Class Time and Student Achievement
Burgess, Simon M.; Rawal, Shenila; Taylor, Eric S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study teachers' choices about how to allocate class time across different instructional activities, for example, lecturing, open discussion, or individual practice. Our data come from secondary schools in England, specifically classes preceding GCSE exams. Students score higher in math when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462734
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Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self-Selection and Match Effects
Bruhn, Jesse M.; Campos, Christopher; Chyn, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the distributional effects of remote learning. Our approach combines newly collected data on parental preferences with administrative data from Los Angeles. The preference data allow us to account for selection into remote learning while also studying selection patterns and treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337775
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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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Teacher Performance Pay, Coaching, and Long-Run Student Outcomes
Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
identify causal effects of the school reform. The program improved educational attainment and reduced both criminal activity …
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Are Effective Teachers for Students with Disabilities Effective Teachers for All?
Wood, W. Jesse; Lai, Ijun; Filosa, Neil R.; Imberman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The success of many students with disabilities (SWDs) depends on access to high-quality general education teachers. Yet, most measures of teacher value-added measures (VAM) fail to distinguish between a teacher's effectiveness in educating students with and without disabilities. We create two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334430
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Self-, Peer-, and Teacher Perceptions under School Tracking
Malamud, Ofer; Mitrut, Andreea; Pop-Eleches, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine student, teacher, and peer perceptions of effort, ability, performance, and self-confidence in Romania's highly tracked schools. We find that: (1) students just above a cutoff--tracked into high-achieving classes--have less favorable self-perceptions than those just below...
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