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Accountability, incentives and behavior: the impact of high-stakes testing in the Chicago Public Schools

Brian A. Jacob
- 01 Jun 2005 - 
- Vol. 89, Iss: 5, pp 761-796
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The authors examined the impact of an accountability policy implemented in the Chicago Public Schools in 1996-1997, using a panel of student-level, administrative data, and found that math and reading achievement increased sharply following the introduction of the accountability policy, in comparison to both prior achievement trends in the district and to changes experienced by other large, urban districts.
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This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2005-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 554 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Accountability & Special education.

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Yariv Feniger, +2 more
- 02 Apr 2016 - 
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The Importance of Infrastructure Development to High-Quality Literacy Instruction

David Cohen, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: Cohen and Bhatt as mentioned in this paper argue that the education system in the United States has always been a patchwork of local school systems that share no common curricula, student examinations, teacher education, or means of observing and improving instruction.
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- 26 Aug 2016 - 
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Educational systems efficiency in European Union countries

Francesca Giambona, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the PISA 2006 results to analyse students' proficiency in EU countries with regard to two indexes that represent the home background, viz the educational resources available at home and the family background of students.
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The Promise of Performance Pay? Reasons for Caution in Policy Prescriptions in the Core Civil Service

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- 01 Aug 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the available evidence on performance-related pay (PRP) in public sector contexts, particularly the different types of public sector jobs, the quality of the empirical study, and the economic context (developing country or OECD settings), is presented.
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Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating

Brian A. Jacob, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2003 - 
TL;DR: Jacob and Levitt as mentioned in this paper investigated the prevalence and predictors of teacher cheating in Chicago Public Schools. But they did not consider the role of teachers in the cheating and did not identify any teachers who were involved in cheating.
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Economic Considerations and Class Size

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The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the recent history of education reform and statewide testing in Texas, which led to the introduction of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in 1990-91.
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