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Joshua Angrist; Guthrie Gray-Lobe; Clemence Idoux; Parag Pathak – Blueprint Labs, 2022
This is the policy brief for the discussion paper, "Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York." While choice systems offer students in segregated neighborhoods access to schools that may be more integrated and of higher quality, does busing lead to improved academic performance as measured by higher test scores…
Descriptors: Busing, School Desegregation, Racial Factors, White Students
Ehrlich, S.B.; Connors, M.C.; Stein, A.G.; Francis, J.; Easton, J. Q.; Kabourek, S. E.; Farrar, I. C. – Start Early, 2020
As pre-kindergarten (pre-k) expands across the country, school districts are making choices about where to place pre-k classrooms and developing policies for how families can apply and who is enrolled. In doing so, districts are pulling policy levers that influence students' access to pre-k. Research shows that some families have less access to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Board of Education Policy
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Abramo, Giovanni; D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea; Di Costa, Flavia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
Scholars and policy makers recognize that collaboration between industry and the public research institutions is a necessity for innovation and national economic development. This work presents an econometric model which expresses the university capability for collaboration with industry as a function of size, location and research quality. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Industry, Technology Transfer
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Jones, Emily A.; Feeley, Kathleen M.; Takacs, Jennifer – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2007
Using a multiple probe design across responses, we demonstrated the effectiveness of intensive intervention in establishing spontaneous verbal responses to 2 3-year-old children with autism with generalization to novel settings involving novel persons. Intervention involved discrete-trial instruction (i.e., repeated instructional opportunities…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Communication Skills, Proximity