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The past decade has seen the emergence of numerous rigorous impact evaluations of teacher policies. This paper reviews the economic theory and empirical evidence on eight teacher policy goals: (1) setting clear expectations for teachers; (2) attracting the best into teaching; (3) preparing...
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The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.  The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.  For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...
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Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren.  We also examine whether "white flight" is from all...
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Several recent studies provide evidence that the choice between private and public school among white students is influenced by the racial composition of the local student population.  None of these studies, however, examines whether Latinos are also fleeing to private schools in response to...
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.  Variations in income per capita and especially parental education account for over 70% of the gap in private school attendance …
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achieved, they look at the future of their children, a process that births diverse educational programs. Education then … organizations in emergency contexts is “should an emergency education focus on short-term and immediate relief, or be conceived as a … long-term objective”? (Kagawa cited in Wright, 2011, p. 29) Should education mitigate or exacerbate the conflict? What is …
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Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210853
to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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<p>Dennis Soltys reviews the second volume of a five-part series that will further comprise health, infrastructure, and governance. The first volume, on poverty, was reviewed by this author in the No. 2, 2010, issue of the journal of Poverty & Public Policy.</p>
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The general objective of this project was to improve the quality of education at the Ticuna indigenous schools in the … people are the principal actors in the transformation of their education system. The outcomes of this program went beyond its …
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