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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496150
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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries
Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021
books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599413
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Where all students can succeed
2019
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012451544
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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024
to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461554
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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024
to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464439
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Brown in Jerusalem : A Comparative Look on Race and Ethnicity in Public Schools
Blank, Yishai - 2007
The devolution of control over public educational systems from the central government to localities has been justified by two sets of arguments: first, by free-market inspired "jurisdictional competition" theory; second, by multicultural ideology. Notwithstanding the advantages stemming from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223593
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The Simpson paradox of school grading in Italy
Dardanoni, Valentino; Modica, Salvatore; Pennisi, Aline - In: Research in economics : an international review of economics 63 (2009) 2, pp. 91-94
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879957
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Explaining urban-rural differences in educational achievement in Thailand : evidence from PISA literacy data
Kiatanantha Lounkaew - In: Economics of education review 37 (2013), pp. 213-225
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307
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Student scores in public and private schools : evidence from PISA 2009
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2014
and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408877