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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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The role of education quality for economic growth

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Remedial education and student achievement: a regression-discontinuity analysis

Brian A. Jacob, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2004 - 
TL;DR: This article examined the causal impact of these remedial education programs and found that the net effect of these programs was to substantially increase academic achievement among third graders, but not sixth graders.
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TL;DR: The Education Gap is the first book to gather a significant body of data on vouchers in multiple locations, and it reveals startling new evidence that voucher programs benefit African-American students more than participants from other ethnic groups as mentioned in this paper.
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