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The debate over the use of public funds to finance private school education has waged for well over forty years. The … contemporary debate on school vouchers centers on the impact of vouchers on public education budgets. While the impact of vouchers … school vouchers is that only the general goals and objectives of public education are considered. For example, most …
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Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because direct measures of outcomes are available, making it is...
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Tiebout's framework, recent research suggests this effect is operative for school districts: decentralization (greater … warn that school finance reforms, by effectively centralizing educational provision, may also lower expenditure. These …
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school quality stimulates demand for private tutoring significantly. The result supports the view that institutional features …
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We examine the impact of bilingual school designation on the house price by analyzing a natural experiment of school … conversion from a monolingual school to bilingual school in Melbourne. We find that the house price within the pertinent school …. Moreover, we find no significant response in the unit market where residents are less likely to have school-aged children …
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This paper examines the scalability of the results from the Tennessee Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) Project, a prominent educational experiment. We explore how the misalignment between the experimental design and the econometric model affects researchers' ability to learn about the...
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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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