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Publikováno v:
Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol 9, p 44 (2001)
Over the past decade, several states have created comprehensive accountability systems designed to increase student learning in public schools. These accountability systems are based on "high-stakes" standardized testing of a state curriculum. Reward
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https://doaj.org/article/8e86ba003aeb4c96b358067271a5b54d
Autor:
Benjamin Scafidi
Publikováno v:
Journal of School Choice. :1-4
Publikováno v:
Journal of School Choice. 15:305-330
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a severe economic recession in 2020. Historically, during economic recessions, there have been large declines in independent (private) school enrollments in the United ...
Autor:
Eric Wearne, Benjamin Scafidi
Publikováno v:
Journal of School Choice. 15:18-58
In this article, we explore why American populists may be attracted to the educational choice. Though populist factions may support either elitist institutions and policies or institutions and poli...
Publikováno v:
Journal of School Choice. 10:249-269
Georgia’s 2012 Charter Schools Amendment was the first successful statewide school choice referendum in the United States. This amendment permitted the state to authorize new charter schools, thereby creating a way for charter creators to bypass lo
Publikováno v:
Eastern Economic Journal. 41:346-369
This paper provides an analysis of who takes Advanced Placement (AP) Economics. We find large differences in enrollment in AP Economics across groups. Specifically, African-American and Hispanic students and students from low-income backgrounds are a
Publikováno v:
The American Economist. 57:1-20
We employ an empirical approach designed to control for selection issues to estimate the effect of taking Advanced Placement (AP) Economics in high school on student performance on a high-stakes, statewide End-of-Course Test (EOCT). Using data on all
Autor:
John R. Swinton, Benjamin Scafidi
Publikováno v:
Education Research International, Vol 2012 (2012)
We examine the impact on student achievement of a face-to-face teacher workshop that also provides economics instructors with access to an electronic library of instructional and reference material for their economics classroom—Virtual Economics v.
Publikováno v:
Eastern Economic Journal. 38:401-416
Centers for Economic Education across the country have as their primary goal assisting k-12 teachers teach economics. Much of this assistance is done through in-service teacher workshops. While there is empirical evidence that teacher in-service work
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Economic Education. 42:3-18
The authors provide the first estimates of the impact of peers on achievement in high school economics. The estimates are obtained by analyzing three years of data on all high school students who take Georgia's required economics course and its accom