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Two of the most important reforms to American public schooling this century have been an increase in the minimum school …
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School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on … sufficient information. A school accountability scheme that rewards school performance will create incentives for pupil selection …
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the nature of school facility investments, whether such investments actually change the physical condition of public … campaigns initiated and financed by local school districts, comparing districts where school capital bonds were either narrowly … approved or narrowly defeated by district voters. Overall, we find little evidence that school capital campaigns improve …
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This paper studies a large-scale educational expansion to evaluate whether shocks to school inputs have an impact on … doubled enrollment in adult education, thus putting considerable strain on school inputs. Since the policy targeted … stronger negative shocks to peer quality and school resources such as teacher credentials and perpupil expenditure. Then, I …
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. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics …
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There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves … educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school … school expenditure over recent years has had a consistently positive effect on outcomes at the end of primary school. Back …
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School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on … sufficient information. A school accountability scheme that rewards school performance will create incentives for pupil selection …
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on reading scores, math scores, and teacher behavior in Chile. Over a six-year period, reading and math scores rose by 0 …
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Sweden has a school voucher system with universal coverage and full acceptance of corporate providers. Using a value … students, the voucher school impact is around zero. Comparing internal and external evaluations of the same standardized tests …
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Sweden has a school voucher system with universal coverage and full acceptance of corporate providers. Using a value … students, the voucher school impact is around zero. Comparing internal and external evaluations of the same standardized tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496885