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Instruction Time, Classroom Quality, and Academic Achievement

Rivkin, Steven G. - 2013

Many countries, American jurisdictions and charter schools have recently embraced longer school days or more time devoted to core academic classes. Recent research generally supports the notion that additional time raises achievement, though difficulties isolating an exogenous source of...

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School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

between grades 3 and 8. Moreover, non-random sample attrition for school changers and much higher rates of special education …

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Disruption, Achievement and the Heterogeneous Benefits of Smaller Classes

McKee, Graham - 2010

education production that incorporates disruption and student achievement and illustrates how these underlying sources of …

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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2022

Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools. Unique matched panel data from...

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Does Special Education Raise Academic Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2021

While special education has become a hotly debated issue of school policy, most of the discussion has centered on the … such programs or possible interactions with the provision of regular education. This study, building on the unique data of … the Harvard/UTD Texas Schools Project provides direct evidence on the effectiveness of special education programs. The …

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What is the Tradeoff between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality?

Jepsen, Christopher; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of California's class size reduction program on teacher quality and student achievement in an effort to gain a comprehensive understanding of the impact of a large-scale decrease in class size. It uses year-to-year differences in class size generated by...

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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

Hanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G.; Taylor, Lori L. - 2021

This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory findings in the debate over school resources and school effectiveness by highlighting the role of aggregation in the presence of omitted variables bias. While data aggregation for well-specified linear models yields unbiased parameter estimates,...

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The Evolution of Charter School Quality

Baude, Patrick - 2014

Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of...

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Constrained Job Matching : Does Teacher Job Search Harm Disadvantaged Urban Schools?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

differences in working conditions that are difficult for institutions to alter. Of particular concern to education policy makers … teachers to achievement despite the complications of purposeful choices of families, teachers, and administrators. The …

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The Market for Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; O'Brien, Daniel M.; … - 2021

Much of education policy focuses on improving teacher quality, but most policies lack strong research support. We use …

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