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academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …
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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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We consider a model in which educational investments entail productivity gains, signaling power, and social returns. The latter depend on the relative position the agent occupies in one of three di¤erent dimensions: (i) his innate characteristics, (ii) his level of schooling, and (iii) his...
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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … responded through various programs – two latest examples of which are the Sarva Shikhsa Mission and the Right to Education Bill …
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This paper reviews the literature on the relationship of economic growth to the education levels of the labor force …
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A study was conducted to see whether peer effects could be observed among undergraduates at Williams College, an elite four-year liberal arts school. Specifically, the study explored whether students in the bottom third of their class, with average SAT's of about 1300, would perform better in...
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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is … important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is … qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years. It is observed that complete Literacy has not been …
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pre-university education. Therefore, the synthetic approach to educational problems in Romania, studied in terms of the … decentralization of education. This theme is a true significant of the stage and of the the changing potential of the management … constant institutional reorganization of pre-university education show the presence of an active interest in this matter …
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of political activity identied in the literature, namely education, and its interaction with economic circumstances …. Using a combination of individual-level micro data and cross-country macro data, we highlight how rising levels of education …
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Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging effects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a frame- work where...
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