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Chingos, Matthew M. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Class-size reduction (CSR) mandates presuppose that resources provided to reduce class size will have a larger impact on student outcomes than resources that districts can spend as they see fit. I estimate the impact of Florida's statewide CSR policy by comparing the deviations from prior achievement trends in districts that were required to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Class Size, Academic Achievement, State Policy
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Schenker-Wicki, Andrea; Hurlimann, Mark – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2006
In the past decade, based on a change in paradigms in university policy, performance funding on a cantonal and central state level has been introduced in Switzerland: the universities have been granted higher autonomy, combined with global budgets and contract management by the responsible authorities (cantonal authorities). At the same time, the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Policy Analysis, Laws, Program Effectiveness