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in Nigeria and its implication for counselling. The keeping of school records is critical to efficiency in human … management in general and school administration in particular. How school records are kept can make or mar the success of the … whole system. The challenges found in the literature facing the keeping of school records in Nigeria includes fire outbreaks …
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Schools (CPS). Roughly half of the students within CPS opt out of their assigned high school to attend other neighborhood … schools or special career academies and magnet schools. Access to school choice dramatically increases student sorting by … of school choice) are no more likely to graduate on average than students in more isolated areas. We find no evidence …
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teachers who raise a schools' ability to attract students. Thus, in the long term, school choice would affect who became (and … choice (Tiebout choice, choice of private schools) and a new survey of charter school teachers, this paper finds evidence … that suggests that school choice would change the teaching profession by demanding teachers with higher quality college …
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model describing the joint distribution of school value-added, bias, and lottery compliance. We use this model to assess the … provides a general recipe for combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental estimates. While still biased, hybrid school …
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This paper examines the economic and empirical foundations of the aggregate evidence on the effect of schooling quality on earnings. A common framework is presented which nests all previous studies as special cases. We discuss two crucial identifying assumptions and test them. The first...
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Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools … integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school … Texas students, disentangles racial composition effects from other aspects of school quality and from differences in student …
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schooling policies particularly those related to the level and distribution of school spending affect the distribution of worker … in achievement growth across states. Further, the three decade old movement toward reducing the variation in school … government policies toward school spending, as carried out in the past, have not ameliorated inequalities in incomes …
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Prompted by widespread concerns about public school quality, a growing empirical literature has measured the effects of … greater choice on school performance. This paper contributes to that literature in three ways. First, it makes the observation … metropolitan area, it provides a direct and intuitive measure of the competition each school faces. This takes the form of a school …
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In many theoretical public finance models, school quality plays a central role as a determinant of household location … concluded that the direct effect of school quality on housing demand is weak, a conclusion that is robust across a variety of …, providing clear evidence that the full effect of school quality on residential sorting is significantly larger than the direct …
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Tiebout type moves to procure better school quality. Empirical research on mobility has yielded inconclusive results, no doubt …. This paper develops a general theoretical model that identifies school quality changes resulting from moving. The empirical … associated with moves from changes in school quality. The results suggest that there is a small average increase in school …
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