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In the us, test score gaps by socioeconomic status and race increase with city size. This paper examines to what extent residential sorting on school quality can explain this fact. We combine 15 years of data on public elementary school students in North Carolina with geocoded school locations...
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education. Using administrative data from Italian middle schools for four cohorts of students, our study reveals that disrupting …
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This review of higher education policy in Mexico was requested by the Mexican Ministry of Education to take stock of progress since the last OECD review of the higher education system in Mexico, published in 2008, and to support development of the new government's National Development Plan...
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This review examines the external systems in place to assure the quality of higher education in Brazil. It highlights the relative success of the Brazilian quality assurance model in regulating market entry for private operators in Brazil, which cater to over 70% of students. But it also calls ...
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This report presents an assessment of Mexico's recent education reforms. Education systems worldwide require continued policy efforts in essential areas to improve student learning, such as: the need to prioritise equity; providing learning environments that are fit for the 21st century...
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A comprehensive guide for business people, government administrators and specialists in management methodology, Methodological School of Management details the original and applied thinking, methods and approaches established by the school in the Soviet era and still operating successfully in...
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Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these...
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This is the third in a series devoted to the research output of British library and information schools. This e …
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-- References -- Chapter 1 How Schools Matter: The Need for a Contextual Perspective -- The Need for a Contextual Perspective: Three … Questions about Schools -- What Is the Distribution of School Quality? -- How Do Social Conditions Outside of School Shape the … Magnitude and Malleability of the Achievement Gaps Schools Receive? -- Which Policies, School or Non-School, Would Most …
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