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This paper examines the effects of sorting and mixing on academic performance of high school students in South Korea. The Korean government has vigorously promoted mixing for more than three decades, replacing competitive entrance examinations at individual schools by a lottery-based enrollment...
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The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
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We investigate whether increasing the education quality causes increases in economic growth allowing poorer countries … education quality's impact on economic growth using a panel Vector Error Correction allowing for cross-correlation in the co … to catch up. To this end, we extend Nelson-Phelps's classic paper by introducing differences in education quality …
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to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching, tutoring, group activities, free public transportation tickets … and bursaries for postsecondary education. In this paper, we use a difference-in-differences approach that compares …
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Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …
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This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past … 25 years. It highlights the trends on how the labor market used educated workers. It also reviews how education has …
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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
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