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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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The Unintended Consequences of Test-Based Remediation
Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537725
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Changing the Odds : Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
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Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium
Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd …, such as school closures and vouchers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462676
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Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences of Ability Tracking : Evidence from Texas Public Schools
Antonovics, Kate; Black, Sandra E.; Cullen, Julie Berry; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial differences in opportunities without strong...
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Keep your Enemies Closer : Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
Di Tella, Rafael; Kotti, Randy; Le Pennec-Çaldichoury, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences …
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Addressing Non-Financial Barriers to College Access and Success : Evidence and Policy Implications
Dynarski, Susan M.; Nurshatayeva, Aizat; Page, Lindsay C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Non-financial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic literature documents policy efforts to understand and address these barriers. We review this literature on non-financial...
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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 …
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The Effect of Early Childhood Programs on Third-Grade Test Scores : Evidence from Transitional Kindergarten in Michigan
Berne, Jordan S.; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Musaddiq, Tareena; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is a relatively recent entrant into the U.S. early education landscape, combining features of public pre-K and regular kindergarten. We provide the first estimates of the impact of Michigan's TK program on 3rd grade test scores. Using an augmented regression...
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Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale : The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment
Bleiberg, Joshua; Brunner, Eric J.; Harbatkin, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, that rule out impacts as small as 0.015 standard deviation for achievement and 1 percentage point for high school …
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