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The impact of students' part-time work on educational outcomes

Rokicka, Magdalena - 2014

This paper addresses the issue of school students' part-time employment in the last year of compulsory education, and …

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Should value-added models control for student absences?

Gershenson, Seth - 2016

Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers' control. Teachers often feel strongly that value-added models should account for student attendance, and many districts'...

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Do you speak my language? : the effect of sharing a teacher's native language on student achievement

Seah, Kelvin - In: Southern economic journal 88 (2021) 1, pp. 245-273

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Do you speak my language? : the effect of sharing a teacher's native language on student achievement

Seah, Kelvin - 2018

, demographically-similar teachers can increase students' achievement. These studies have tended to focus on the role of race and gender …-similar teacher. The effect is examined separately for students who are native Spanish-speakers and students who are native English … achievement of native Spanish-speaking students, particularly in Science and English. However, once differences in teacher …

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