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Schools and the equal opportunity problem

Woessmann, Ludger (ed.); Peterson, Paul E. (contributor) - 2007

high performance standards, for example, and well-designed school choice--but also raises considerable doubts about whether … many current school policies are effective in dramatically altering the opportunity structure. The evidence presented also … educational outcomes, human capital policy aimed at disadvantaged students, and private/public school choice. …

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Endangering prosperity : a global view of the American school

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Peterson, Paul E.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2013

"Compares the performance of American schools with that of other countries against the background of an increasingly globalizing world, introducing new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity, and shows mixed results for U.S. students and recommends areas where American schools...

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Economic gains for US states from educational reform

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

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Is seeing believing? : how Americans and Germans think about their schools

Henderson, Michael B.; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peterson, … - 2015

What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and school policies? This paper offers the … both similarities and differences in the structure of American and German public opinion on schools and school policies. …

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Better schools for Europe

Gundlach, Erich; Woessmann, Ludger - In: EIB papers 6 (2001) 2, pp. 8-22

We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....

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Economic gains for US states from educational reform

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

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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