There is a persistent debate over the role of scale of operations in education. Some argue that school franchises offer … educational services more effectively than do small independent schools. Skeptics counter that large, centralized operations … create hard-to-manage bureaucracies and foster diseconomies of scale and that small schools are more effective at promoting …

This paper examines attrition and retention rates among teachers in charter and traditional public schools. This study … a factor of 3.04. The difference between the two rates indicates that charter schools may be exercising their freedom to … let go of teachers which are not a good fit for their schools. Teachers with a higher opportunity cost of teaching, those …

unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong …

unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong …

key factor to economic, social and environmental progress, are a sufficient element to trigger a revolution in education … - the world education systems suffering from the process of McDonaldization which impedes them from evolving towards the XXI …

Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …, improving the efficiency of school seats allocation. I show that parents of low-ability males select schools with lower peer …

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning … achievement of students who are as good as randomly enroled in schools ranked differently in their application. Enroling at the …

learning in Indonesian primary schools. As the responsibility to deliver primary education has been decentralized to district …, we show that schools with more active teacher working groups and higher-qualified teachers achieve better learning gains …

primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of … control for potential sorting of students across schools. Using unique administrative panel data of students in public primary … schools of a large municipality of Japan, we find TVA distribution to have variance comparable to ones observed in the U …