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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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, Private Career Schools, Apprenticeships, Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA) Title III programs, and Community and …
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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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early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are …
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student achievement is above the OECD average in science and at the OECD average in reading and mathematics according to the … the reforms underway or suggested, Germany would be able to look forward to higher education achievement and attainment …
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higher student achievement, including in incumbent public colleges. Unlike studies in the school voucher literature, we find …
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The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the results, methodology, and processes used in a series of net labor market impact studies done for the State of Washington over the past six years. All of the studies relied on administrative data and used a technique referred to as quasi-...
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Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law...
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This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual Education1 Program in the Amazon Region in Peru. The target beneficiaries are the non-Spanish-speaking children from three Amazon ethnic communities: the Awarunas, Ashaninkas and Shipibos-Conibos. They are a...
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schools generates both new opportunities and challenges. Basic computer skills are often acquired by students without any … governments should no longer focus on providing ICT equipment as virtually all schools have computer labs and access to the … Internet. More investment in this field would be counterproductive. The role of schools should be rather to teach students how …
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