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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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School - community engagement: Shifting boundaries of policy and practice

Dorothy Bottrell, +2 more
TL;DR: The authors examines approaches to school-community engagement in policy and practice and argues for a reorientation toward equity beyond the neoliberal rationale, arguing that over two decades neoliberal policies in Australia and elsewhere have perversely erased the boundaries of schools and communities as both have been incorporated into markets with business-based systems of performance and accountability.
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Do You See What I See? The Impact of School Accountability on Parent, Teacher, and Student Perceptions of the School Environment.

Emilyn Ruble Whitesell
- 01 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: This paper explored the impact of accountability on individual perceptions and how accountability affects heterogeneity in stakeholder perceptions within schools, and found that school accountability widens existing perceptual gaps between stakeholder groups, decreases variation in parent and teacher perceptions, and contributes to greater variation in student perceptions.

Teacher perceptions of the impact of no child left behind on instructional practices: a case study of four title i elementary schools

David Scott
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School accountability reforms and the use of special education

Jon Marius Vaag Iversen
- 06 Jun 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between Norwegian school reform implementation and the use of special education and found that increases in the proportion of special-education in Norway reflect the degree of reform implementation in these municipalities.

The Effectiveness of Tying Teacher Evaluation Policy to Student Achievement in South Korea

Sung Tae Jang
TL;DR: In this article, a micro-level analysis focusing on the effects of individual schools' teacher evaluation policy on individual students' achievement was conducted, and the analysis used 2,655 teachers in 150 middle schools as well as data on 5,677 middle school students' math and reading test scores from the Korean Educational Longitudinal Study (KELS).
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Multitask Principal–Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design

Bengt Holmstrom, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1991 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a principal-agent model that can explain why employment is sometimes superior to independent contracting even when there are no productive advantages to specific physical or human capital and no financial market imperfections to limit the agent's borrowings is presented.
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Estimating the Effect of Training Programs on Earnings.

Orley Ashenfelter
- 01 Feb 1978 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the first three months of training under the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) in the U.S. in order to measure the full inter-temporal impact of training.
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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

Alan B. Krueger
- 01 Feb 2003 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined evidence on the effect of class size on student achievement and showed that the results of quantitative summaries of the literature depend critically on whether studies are accorded equal weight.
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The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education

Walt Haney
- 19 Aug 2000 - 
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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