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burgeoned, relatively little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement. Proponents of charter schools … result in higher achievement in traditional public schools as well. This paper focuses on student achievement in charter … schools in Michigan. The analyses presented in the paper suggest that students attending charter schools in Michigan are not …
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paper focuses on student achievement in charter schools in Michigan. The analyses presented here suggest that students … attending charter schools in Michigan are not reaching the same levels of achievement as students in traditional public schools … impacts of charter schools on student achievement. The direct effect is through the restructuring of teaching and learning …
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the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s on student achievement, especially in math. The effects on teachers and …
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considerable autonomy while remaining in the state sector. We analyse the effects of two secondary free schools with different … schools have a strong positive impact on student test scores on average. However, we also find heterogeneous effects: the "no …. Both schools similarly reduce student absences and school mobility. Peer quality, teacher characteristics, and inspectorate …
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, Private Career Schools, Apprenticeships, Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA) Title III programs, and Community and …
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The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are … traditional reading and math skills. No Excuses charter schools are sometimes said to focus on relatively motivated high achievers … emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that …
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considerable autonomy while remaining in the state sector. We analyse the effects of two secondary free schools with different … schools have a strong positive impact on student test scores on average. However, we also find heterogeneous effects: the "no …. Both schools similarly reduce student absences and school mobility. Peer quality, teacher characteristics, and inspectorate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542145
Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter … sources of charter effect heterogeneity, we show that urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of urban public … schools in other settings do not. Using the largest available sample of lotteried applicants to charter schools, we explore …
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This paper uses data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohorts(NLSY79 and NLSY97) to estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the early 1980s and early 2000s. Cognitive ability plays an...
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The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are … traditional reading and math skills. No Excuses charter schools are sometimes said to focus on relatively motivated high achievers … emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021633