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portion of pay on student outcomes. In the US, the number of school districts adopting such performancebased financial …
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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...
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varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are …, or achievement differences. Instead, we argue that the results are consistent with a heightened awareness among school … officials of disabilities in students who are racially and ethnically distinct from the majority race in the school …
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varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are …, or achievement differences. Instead, we argue that the results are consistent with a heightened awareness among school … officials of disabilities in students who are racially and ethnically distinct from the majority race in the school …
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In this paper we determine how the receipt of gifted and talented (GT) services affects student outcomes. We identify the causal relationship by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility requirements and find that for students on the margin there is no discernable impact on achievement even...
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a large urban school district in the southwest United States, we assess how uniforms affect behavior, achievement and … other outcomes. Each school in the district determines adoption independently, providing variation over schools and time. By … including student and school fixed-effects we find evidence that uniform adoption improves attendance in secondary grades, while …
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