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with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …
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The typical measure used by researchers and school administrators to evaluate teachers is based on how the students …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of school closures on student achievement among displaced students … and future cohorts in Sweden. In contrast to previous studies that only analyze the effects of school closures on … disruption of the move. Furthermore, the study is one of the first quantitative studies to estimate the effects of school …
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In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the … German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. The results reveal that school starting …
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Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
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Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501863
We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our … schools experiencing the largest increase in their school autonomy relative to their predecessor state. Analysis of mechanisms …
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This paper provides the first analysis of the relationship between the language mix of Limited English Proficient (LEP) peers and student achievement, using detailed panel data from 2006 to 2012. Percent LEP has a negative association with mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP...
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School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to educate. To test this, we sent … emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and traditional public schools subject to school choice in 29 states … and Washington, D.C. The fictitious parent asked whether any student is eligible to apply to the school and how to apply …
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The existence of a rigid cutoff date which determines when children start primary school creates a large heterogeneity … Catalonia to show that: (1) relatively younger children do significantly worse both in tests administered at the school level … the academic track in secondary school less often. (4) Younger children are more frequently diagnosed with learning …
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