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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : international evidence
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509528
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Do more effective teachers earn more outside of the classroom?
Chingos, Matthew M.; West, Martin R. - 2010
We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-02 and 2006-07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4-8 teachers leaving for other industries, a 1 standard deviation increase in estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949076
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The effects of test-based retention on student outcomes over time : regression discontinuity evidence from Florida
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - 2013
A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733008
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The impact of alternative grade configurations on student outcomes through middle and high school
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - 2011
school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in nonurban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories. -- educational production ; public schools ; grade configuration ; middle schools ; high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240871
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"Every catholic child in a catholic school" : historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries
West, Martin R. (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2008
Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720614