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Leveraging Technology to Engage Parents at Scale: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Bergman, Peter Leopold S.; Chan, Eric W. - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students: A story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - In: IZA Journal of Migration 6 (2017) 2, pp. 1-18

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA 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....

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Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2007

education, determinants of the demand for services of the PTCs, cost of PTCs and evidence on the effectiveness of PTCs …

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Do significant immigrant inflows create negative education impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina public school system

Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2012

academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …

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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added

Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012

The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...

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Motivation, Resources and the Organization of the School System

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …, the paper provides a rationale for the existing ambiguous empirical evidence on the effect of school resources. The paper …

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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...

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Are you on the right track? : the effect of educational tracks on student achievement in upper-secondary education in Hungary

Hermann, Zoltán - 2013

in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and …

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Does the precision and stability of value-added estimates of teacher performance depend on the types of students they serve?

Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013

This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...

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Private tutoring expenditures in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Bircan, Fatma - 2004

. The determinants examined within a Tobit model framework include total household expenditure, education levels of parents … and other household characteristics. Such analysis of the household behavior of attempting to provide better education to … their children will highlight the determinants of the demand for education and the intergenerational transfers in Turkey. …

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