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economic impacts. But, the evidence – whether from aggregate school outcomes, econometric investigations, or a variety of …
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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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that, after an initial start-up period, average school quality in the charter sector is not significantly different from … that in regular public schools. Perhaps most important, the parental decision to exit a charter school is much more … sensitive to education quality than the decision to exit a regular public school, consistent with the notion that the …
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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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, ignoring quality differences. This focus contrasts sharply with policy considerations that almost exclusively consider school … quality issues. This paper presents basic evidence about the impact of school quality on individual earnings and on economic … considers alternative school reform policies focused on improvements in teacher quality, identifying how much change is required …
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There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at … a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to … raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of the reform depends in large part on whether parental choices induce …
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Although much has been written about the importance of leadership in the determination of organizational success, there is little quantitative evidence due to the difficulty of separating the impact of leaders from other organizational components - particularly in the public sector. Schools...
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Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …
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schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn while in school. This paper examines studies published between 1990 … and 2010, in both the education literature and the economics literature, to investigate which specific school and teacher … characteristics, if any, appear to have strong positive impacts on learning and time in school. Starting with over 9,000 studies, 79 …
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