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Annie E. Casey Foundation

KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures …

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Schools, School Quality and Academic Achievement:Evidence from the Philippines

Bacolod, Marigee P.; Tobias, Justin L. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

children's achievement growth using the education production function.Using rich data from the Philippines, we introduce and …

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Bayesian Modeling of School Effects UsingHierarchical Models with Smoothing Priors

Li, Mingliang; Tobias, Justin L. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

We describe a new and flexible framework for modeling school effects. Like previouswork in this area, we introduce an empirical model that evaluates school performance onthe basis of student level test-score gains. Unlike previous work, however, we introducea flexible model that relates...

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Does Local School Control Raise Student Outcomes?:Theory and Evidence on the Roles of School Autonomyand Community Participation

Gunnarsson, Louise Victoria; Orazem, Peter F.; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

School autonomy and parental participation have been frequently proposed as ways of making schools more productive. Less clear is how governments can foster decentralized decision-making by local schools. This paper shows that across eight Latin-American countries, most of the variation in local...

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Child Labour, School Attendance andPerformance: A Review

Orazem, Peter F.; Gunnarsson, L. Victoria - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

This paper reviews the issues surrounding the derivation of estimates of the impact of child labor on school outcomes. The paper aims to review the current state of methodological and empirical knowledge concerning the impact of child labor on learning, to review existing data sets that could be...

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Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklungaußerhalb von Modellversuchen und KampagnenBeobachtungen zu Stand und Schnittstellen für die weitereEntwicklung

Rode, Horst - Institut für Umweltkommunikation <Lüneburg> - 2006

Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE) scheint auf dem Vormarsch zu sein, wennauch nicht mit hoher Geschwindigkeit. Diese Beobachtung wird durch den Stellenwert, denThemen und Aspekte der BNE in 150 zufällig ausgewählten schulischen Selbstdarstellungenhaben, belegt. Fast die Hälfte...

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Child Labor and School Achievement in Latin America

Gunnarsson, L. Victoria; Orazem, Peter F.; Sánchez, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

countries. Cross-country variation in truancy regulations provides an exogenous shift in the ages of children normally in these … on test scores are biased downward, but corrected estimates are still negative and statistically significant. Children …

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Economic Inequality and the Provision of Schooling

Downes, Thomas A.; Figlio, David N. - Tufts University <Medford, Mass.>; University of …; … - 1999

[...]What might account for this link between parentalincome and children’s income? Many economists believethat this …-income parents can invest inmore (and better) education for their children, in a mannerthat low-income parents cannot, due to credit … marketimperfections. Since credit markets are imperfect, becauseparents cannot borrow against their children’s futureearnings to finance …

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Conclusions and Controversies about the Effectiveness of School Resources

Hanushek, Eric Alan - W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy … - 1998

[...]This paper analyzes the current state of the educationsystem in the United States. In the course of the paper, Iwill try to point out where controversy exists, particularlyin academic discussions.[...]

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Reassessing the View That American Schools Are Broken

Krueger, Alan B. - Princeton University / Department of Economics - 1998

[...]The main conclusion from this review is that thewidely held belief that American schools have failed—thatthey are performing worse today than they have in the past,that a high school degree is no longer valuable, and thatadditional resources yield no benefits in the current system—is...

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