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Changing the Odds : Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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Learning to change : the experience of transforming education in South East Europe
Bassler, Terrice (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625794
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The Effect of Grade Retention on Child Test Scores
Bhattacharya, Samrat - 2007
Each year an estimated two million children in the United States repeat a grade. Investing an additional year in the same grade is expected to help a child to acquire the academic skills she lacks. This, in turn, would help her to be successful in higher grades. In spite of its popularity, grade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223191
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Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?
Bold, Tessa; Kimenyi, Mwangi; Mwabu, Germano; Sandefur, … - 2011
school fees in Kenya in 2003 led to no increase in net public enrollment rates, but rather a dramatic shift toward private … interactions: the entry of poorer pupils into free education contributed to the exit of their more affluent peers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174935
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Mixing Versus Sorting in Schooling : Evidence from the Equalization Policy in South Korea
Kim, Taejong; Lee, Ju-Ho; Lee, Young - 2004
This paper examines the effects of sorting and mixing on academic performance of high school students in South Korea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073994
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium : Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel S.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021
productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … to pay for school quality, and schools are subject to a class-size cap. The model offers an explanation for two distinct … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …
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Does teacher's disability matter? : a case from students' preference decision between teachers with and without visual impairments teaching in Nepal's regular mainstream schools
Lamichhane, Kamal; Tsujimoto, Takahiro; Paudel, Damaru … - In: International journal of education economics and development 7 (2016) 3/4, pp. 133-154
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Schools, Students, and Teachers in Lebanon : Research for Results Program 2021
World Bank Group - 2021
quantitative evidence on student and teacher performance, school environment and management, and qualitative evidence related to …
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Schools, Students, and Teachers in Lebanon : Research for Results Program 2021
Ministry of Education and Higher Education; World Bank Group - 2021
quantitative evidence on student and teacher performance, school environment and management, and qualitative evidence related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255408
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Theory-based evaluation of the curriculum Lgr 11a
Wahlström, Ninni; Sundberg, Daniel - 2015
the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297458