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Who benefits from KIPP?
Angrist, Joshua D.; Dynarski, Susan M.; Kane, Thomas J.; … - 2011
features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305486
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Date of birth and selective schooling
Hart, Robert A.; Moro, Mirko - 2017
as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …
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Pre-K in the public schools : evidence from within U.S. States
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad - 2018
In the past 15 years, four-year-olds' enrollment in state-funded pre-kindergarten in the United States has doubled, and advocates have pushed for further expansion. Although research has shown that pre-K programs can have important benefits, most existing studies have focused on small or...
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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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The Unintended Consequences of Test-Based Remediation
Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …
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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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Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences of Ability Tracking : Evidence from Texas Public Schools
Antonovics, Kate; Black, Sandra E.; Cullen, Julie Berry; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial differences in opportunities without strong...
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Keep your Enemies Closer : Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
Di Tella, Rafael; Kotti, Randy; Le Pennec-Çaldichoury, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322890
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn: evidence from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth …: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards with the objective to improve high-school graduation and post …
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