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been a trend towards jobs distinguished as medium and low skilled. Moreover, a comparison between education level and …
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new needs of the industry by enrolling more in vocational secondary education. We also observe a decrease in academic high …
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This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have …' core pedagogical skills. These positive effects persist over time and are particularly salient in education priority …
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With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the “feminization” of elementary school teaching is …
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With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the 'feminization' of elementary school teaching is …
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With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the “feminization” of elementary school teaching is …
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The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers? pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...
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