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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"school quality"”.
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Graduation rates, success and high school quality.
The efficacy of high school grades in retention modeling has been criticized as ineffective, owing to the diversity in both grading standards in high schools and competitiveness of high school curriculums. Informed by theories from status attainment, credentialism, and cultural capital, the present …
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Labor Market Returns to School Quality in China
… out research dedicated to explore the impact of school quality on students' subsequent labor market earnings in China. Three distinctive datasets involving both urban and rural areas of China are used in the dissertation to investigate this issue: the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), China …
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School choice, school quality, and human capital : three essays
… I develop and estimate a structural model of school choice that links students' decisions to apply to and attend charter schools in Boston, Massachusetts to their potential achievement test scores in charter schools and public schools. This chapter is motivated by a growing literature that …
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School Quality Capitalization Into Housing Prices In Minnesota And Pennsylvania
… of spatially-lagged housing prices and local school quality measured by performance on state standardized tests. Two datasets are used from Boyertown, PA and Minneapolis, MN. Homes are spatially weighted against each other using a k nearest-neighbor approach. School quality is thought to be …
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U.S. school quality: The public benefits of primary and secondary education
… essays focus on the various measurements of school quality and its importance in motivating people's location choices, their interest in school improvement, and their ability to fund additional school expenditures. The first essay examines hedonic housing price studies to dissect the mixed …
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School quality, compulsory education laws and the growth of American high school attendance, 1915-1935
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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The relationships between parent/guardian and teacher inclusion in school decision-making processes, perceptions of school quality, and retention in schools
… and teachers in Michigan K-12 public school decision-making processes, perceptions of school quality, and subsequent parent/guardian and teacher retention by the school. Decision-making structures and participation in those structures, participants’ own childhood experiences, trust, …
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Factors Associated with the Quality of International High Schools in the EARCOS Region
The purpose of this study was to determine school administrators and teacher views on factors influencing the quality of international high schools in the East Asia Regional Council of Schools (EARCOS) region. The following research questions guided this study: 1. In what ways do administrators and …
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Essays on economics of school and residential choices.
This thesis studies school and residential choices when private schooling is available and attending a public school is free of charge but requires a residence in the school attendance zone. Each of the three chapters focuses on different issues. The first chapter develops a model of competition …
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Empirical Essays on the Economics of Education.
… of education. Chapter 2 explores a secondary school admission policy reform and employs repeat sales data to examine the relationship between house prices and school quality. I use the reform to generate exogenous variation in school quality, and repeat sales data to eliminate time-invariant …
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The role of the family in determining a child's educational outcomes
… most studies have emphasised the role of school quality, without adequate emphasis on the role of the family. This study has investigated the role of the family in determining educational outcomes, and further how this is different for non-whites and whites. A holistic model of education …
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Essays in Labor and Education Economics
… study the reasons behind racial disparities in school choices and propose two solutions to alleviate them: providing information about school quality and promoting attendance in racially integrated schools during earlier grades. Differences in school choice by race contribute to unequal access …
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Essays on the economic effects of human capital investments
… Blackboard increased the number of primary school teachers by ten percent. I find that despite substantial misallocation of teachers appointed under the program, on balance the program reduced the prevalence of single-teacher schools and increased the number of teachers per school. Moreover, …
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Determinants of Educational Expenditures and Outcomes: Analyses Using School Campus -Level Data
"It appears that school quality, measured by school expenditures, is a significant determinant of pupil pass rates in reading, math and all three exams. Hence, ""money matters"" at a school campus-level in predicting educational achievement. Furthermore, the effect of school expenditures on …
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The Effect of Public Pre-Kindergarten Attendance on First Grade Reading and Social Achievement: A District Level Analysis
… was to test the relationship between attending a school district Pre-K program and children's later literacy and behavior outcomes in the beginning and middle of first grade. Children's text level, letter-sound identification, sight words, spelling and citizenship skills were measured. The study …
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Factors Contributing to the Successful Completion of the Haitian Baccalaureat (Part I) and Their Administrative Implications
… graduates in the baccalaureat for the 1984-85 school year, 150 Rhetorique Teachers, and forty principals served as subjects in this study. The data came from the official records of the National Department of Education of Haiti, secondary school records, and questionnaires.</p> <p>Twenty-one of …
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Teachers'' Perspectives on the Standards of Learning School Reform in Virginia
… discourse on high-stakes accountability-based school reform that underscores teachers' perspectives. Also, the study discussed the need for fuller disclosure of the possible undesirable classroom effects of the reform. To address these needs, the study described teachers' perspectives on the …
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UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF CHARTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
… which study unintended effects of charter school programs. Chapter 1 evaluates the influence of charter schools on housing values. The dynamics between school quality and housing markets contribute to the isolation of disadvantaged students in low performing school districts. Charter …
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Testing a model of school learning: what contributes to the academic success of at-risk high school students?
… the nature and extent of the influences on the school learning of at-risk high school students. Despite unprecedented compensatory education, minority and low SES high school students continue to achieve below their classmates. Secondary school interventions might be more effective, but because …
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Can housing policy address spatial inequality? : innovations in policy and politics to expand access to opportunity neighborhoods
… measure of neighborhood opportunity we call the School-Violence-Poverty (SVP) Index based on the three metrics that are most strongly associated with positive outcomes among children. We combine it with data on rental prices in New York City and Greater Boston to identify "opportunity bargain" …
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