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Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England and Wales: What Do We Know?
Manning, Alan; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one …
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Comprehensive versus selective schooling in England in Wales : what do we know?
Manning, Alan; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
CEE DP 66 Comprehensive Versus Selective Schooling in England & Wales: What Do We Know … school transition. Comprehensive Versus Selective Schooling in England & Wales: What Do We Know? Alan Manning … became 11 – 16 or 11 – 18 schools. By the mid-1960s, secondary education in England and Wales was rather diverse. In some …
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Education and Later-life Mortality : Evidence from a School Reform in Japan
Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform likely came from disadvantaged families who could...
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Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale : The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment
Bleiberg, Joshua; Brunner, Eric J.; Harbatkin, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Federal incentives and requirements under the Obama administration spurred states to adopt major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting the staggered timing of implementation...
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Chapter 8. School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 383-421). 2011
School accountability—the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student performance measures—is increasingly prevalent around the world. In the United States, accountability has become a centerpiece of both Democratic and Republican federal administrations' education...
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Reforming Education in England
Braconier, Henrik - 2012
Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that educational performance remains static, uneven and strongly related to parents’ income and background. Better educational performance could improve labour market outcomes,...
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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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Chapter 17 Has School Desegregation Improved Academic and Economic Outcomes for Blacks?
Rivkin, Steven; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 1019-1049). 2006
A half a century has passed since the landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned the doctrine of separate but equal in the realm of public education. This chapter attempts to summarize what we know about the impact of Brown on enrollment patterns and academic and economic...
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Chapter 55 Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy
Orazem, Peter F.; King, Elizabeth M. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3475-3559). 2007
In developing countries, rising incomes, increased demand for more skilled labor, and government investments of considerable resources on building and equipping schools and paying teachers have contributed to global convergence in enrollment rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless,...
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Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium
Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800 schools across 112 villages and verify that they are valid and unbiased. With the SVA measures, we then document three striking features of the schooling...
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