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Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial differences in opportunities without strong...
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Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd …, such as school closures and vouchers …
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Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more …
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School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …
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The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
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community. These include vaccination requirements, school closures during periods of high illness, and the implementation of non … public school students in the U.S. surrounding the revocation of CDC guidance recommending school masking in February and …, school staff were rare in the U.S. given school age profiles, we argue that the bulk of these deaths were from spillovers to …
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-city school on political participation and preferences among whites. Drawing on administrative voter registration records and an … original survey, we find that being bused to an inner-city school significantly increases support for the Democratic Party and …
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A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences …
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How does early educational quality affect longer-term academic outcomes? We shed light on this question via a natural experiment in the Philippines--the implementation of a mother tongue education policy in public schools in kindergarten to Grade 3. This policy led to an unexpected decline in...
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