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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects …
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Recent studies of US elite exam schools have yielded the startling conclusion that such schools improve neither educational achievement nor longer-term educational outcomes. Is the same true for exam schools elsewhere? The system in Turkey is ideal for investigating this question. There,...
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literature which indicates that peer effects cannot be estimated without taking into account the role of school decision makers …. We present indicative empirical evidence that gender peer effects in the Norwegian elementary school are conditional upon … the level of special education provided. …
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school environment may be especially important. This study contributes to the literature by examining the joint influence of … the parental background, the parental neighbourhood, and a compositional measure of the school environment, on the … Netherlands to study a complete cohort of school-going home-leavers, who were followed from 1999 to 2012. We fit cross …
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(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …
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Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this …
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