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William Delgado – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Does student-teacher match quality exist? Prior work has documented large disparities in teachers' impacts across student types but has not distinguished between sorting and causal effects as the drivers of these disparities. I propose a disparate value-added model and derive a novel measure of teacher quality--revealed comparative advantage--that…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Attribution Theory
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Baker, Bruce D.; Libby, Ken; Wiley, Kathryn – National Education Policy Center, 2012
Policymakers have long pursued more cost effective, scalable alternatives for delivering elementary and secondary education. The elusive goal is identifying how to reform educational systems so that children will consistently achieve more academically--at a lesser cost. A frequently heard reform claim of this sort is that charter schools deliver…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Comparative Analysis
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
One of the ultimate goals of policy makers is to enable citizens to take advantage of a globalised world economy. This is leading them to focus on the improvement of education policies, ensuring the quality of service provision, a more equitable distribution of learning opportunities and stronger incentives for greater efficiency in schooling.…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Achievement Gap, Student Attitudes, Reading Habits
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
One of the ultimate goals of policy makers is to enable citizens to take advantage of a globalised world economy. This is leading them to focus on the improvement of education policies, ensuring the quality of service provision, a more equitable distribution of learning opportunities and stronger incentives for greater efficiency in schooling.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Global Approach, International Education
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
One of the ultimate goals of policy makers is to enable citizens to take advantage of a globalised world economy. This is leading them to focus on the improvement of education policies, ensuring the quality of service provision, a more equitable distribution of learning opportunities and stronger incentives for greater efficiency in schooling.…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Academic Achievement, Global Approach, Socioeconomic Background
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
One of the ultimate goals of policy makers is to enable citizens to take advantage of a globalised world economy. This is leading them to focus on the improvement of education policies, ensuring the quality of service provision, a more equitable distribution of learning opportunities and stronger incentives for greater efficiency in schooling.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Policy Analysis, Human Capital, Educational Finance
Davis, George H. – 1988
As one of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this document makes a comparison between Arizona's system of higher education and those of other states, in order to place Arizona's higher education efforts in perspective. The number of universities and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Competition, Degrees (Academic)
Cotera, Augustus S. – 1988
An analysis of the performance of minority students in Arizona (Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian) is presented as one working paper in the final report by the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. Data are included for the White majority for comparison purposes. School districts are grouped…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, American Indians, Asian Americans
Cotera, Augustus S.; And Others – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this report presents statistical information on the progress of minority student access and persistence in the three Arizona Universities, Arizona's community colleges, and the Arizona Department of Education.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, American Indians, Asian Americans