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2009 • 2008
2007 • 2006
2005 • 2004
2003 • 2002
2001 • 2000
1999 • 1998
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Research Papers & Executive Summaries
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| Papers PEPG 08-02 to PEPG 08-16 were originally presented at the conference, "Economic Incentives: Do They Work in Education?" |
| PEPG 08-01 |
Teacher Effectiveness, Mobility, and Attrition in Florida: A descriptive analysis
Martin West - Brown University
Matthew Chingos - Harvard University |
| PEPG 08-02 |
Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers
Victor Lavy - Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
| PEPG 08-03 |
Paying to Learn: The Effect of Financial Incentives on Elementary School Test Scores
Eric Bettinger - Case Western Reserve University |
| PEPG 08-04 |
The Impact of School Choice on Educational Performance, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence
Anders Böhlmark - Stockholm University
Mikael Lindahl- Uppsala University |
| PEPG 08-05 |
"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries
Martin R. West - Brown University
Ludger Woessmann — University of Munich, Ifo Institute of Economic Research and CESifo |
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You get what you pay for: Incentives and Selection in the Education System
Armin Falk - University of Bonn
Thomas Dohmen- ROA, Maastricht University, IZA, DIW |
| PEPG 08-07 |
The Role of Information in the Take-up of Student Loans
Adam Booij - University of Amsterdam
Edwin Leuven - University of Amsterdam
Hessel Oosterbeek - University of Amsterdam |
| PEPG 08-08 |
Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive?
Eric Bettinger - Case Western Reserve University
Michael Kremer - Harvard University
Juan Saavedra - Harvard University |
| PEPG 08-10 |
Paying for A's: An Early Exploration of Student Rewards and Incentive Programs in Charter Schools
Margaret Raymond- CREDO, Stanford University |
| PEPG 08-11 |
Impact of For-Profit and Non-Profit Management on Student Achievement: The Philadelphia Experiment
Paul E. Peterson - Harvard University
Matthew Chingos - Harvard University |
| PEPG 08-12 |
Educational Achievement and Ethnicity in Compulsory Schooling
Christian Dustmann - University College London
Stephen Machin - University College London
Uta Schoenberg - University of Rochester |
| PEPG 08-13 |
Teacher Unions, Teacher Pay and Student Performance in India: A Pupil Fixed Effects Approach
Geeta G. Kingdon - Oxford University
Francis Teal - Oxford University |
| PEPG 08-14 |
Impact of the Teacher Advancement Program on Student Test Score Gains: Findings from an Independent Appraisal
Matthew Springer - Vanderbilt University
Dale Ballou - Vanderbilt University
Art (Xiao) Peng - Vanderbilt University |
| PEPG 08-15 |
The Impact of Performance Pay for Public School Teachers: Theory and Evidence
Marcus A. Winters - University of Arkansas
Gary W. Ritter - University of Arkansas
Ryan H. Marsh - University of Arkansas
Jay P. Greene - University of Arkansas
Marc J. Holley - University of Arkansas |
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Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India
Karthik Muralidharan - Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Vankatesh Sundararaman - World Bank |
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PEPG 05-01 |
The Efficacy of Choice Threats within School Accountability Systems: Results from Legislatively Induced Experiments
Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West
Harvard University |
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PEPG 05-02 |
Learning to Lead:
What Gets Taught in Principal Preparation Programs
Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly
American Enterprise Institute |
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PEPG 05-03 |
Textbook Leadership?
An Analysis of Leading Books Used in Principal Preparation
Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly
American Enterprise Institute |
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PEPG 05-04 |
Growing Pains: The School Consolidation Movement and Student Outcomes
Christopher Berry, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Martin West, Harvard University |
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PEPG 05-05 |
What’s So Big About Small Schools?
The Case for Small Schools: Nationwide and in North Dakota
Jordan Hylden
Harvard University |
| Papers PEPG 05-06 to PEPG 05-23 were originally presented at the conference, "Mobilizing the Private Sector for Public Education" |
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PEPG 05-06 |
Mobilizing the Private Sector: A Theoretical Overview
Thomas Nechyba
Duke University and NBER |
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PEPG 05-07 |
Contracting for the Delivery of Education Services: A Typology and International Examples
Norman LaRocque
New Zealand Business Roundtable |
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PEPG 05-08 |
Public-Private Partnerships in Latin America: A Review Based on Four Case Studies
Jose Gines Mora
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia |
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PEPG 05-09 |
Public-Private Partnerships in Schooling: Cross-Country Evidence on their Effectiveness in Providing Cognitive Skills
Ludger Woessmann
Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich |
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PEPG 05-10 |
Lessons from the U.S. Experience with Charter Schools
Chester Finn - Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Gregg Vanourek - Vanourek Consulting Solutions, LLC |
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PEPG 05-11 |
Private School Vouchers in Colombia
Eric Bettinger
Case Western Reserve University |
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PEPG 05-12 |
Impact of Private Provision of Public Education: Empirical Evidence from Bogotá’s Concessions Schools
Felipe Barrera Osorio
Fedesarrollo, Colombia |
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PEPG 05-13 |
The Private-Public School Controversy: The Case of Chile
Christian Bellei
Harvard Graduate School of Education |
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PEPG 05-14 |
Teacher Absenteeism in Developing Countries
Michael Kremer
Harvard University |
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PEPG 05-15 |
Private and Public Schooling: the Indian Experience
Geeta G. Kingdon
Oxford University |
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PEPG 05-16 |
Public and Private Schooling Initiatives in England
Stephen Machin
University College, London and London School of Economics |
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PEPG 05-17 |
Breaking the State Monopoly in the Provision of Schooling:
The Experience in England
Neil McIntosh
CfBT |
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PEPG 05-18 |
The PFI Model and its Effect on Educational Outcomes
Michael Latham
CfBT |
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PEPG 05-19 |
Rights and Duties of Being Public as Part of Civil Society
Jorge Cela, S.J.
Fe y Alegria International Federation |
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PEPG 05-20 |
Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia
Pablo Jaramillo
Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia |
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PEPG 05-21 |
An International Education Company
Carl Bistany
Sabis |
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PEPG 05-22 |
Should Charter Schools Be a Cottage Industry?
Christopher Cerf and John Chubb
Edison Schools |
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PEPG 05-23 |
Education Contracting: Scope of Future Research
Harry A. Patrinos
World Bank |
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| Papers PEPG 05-24 to PEPG 05-36 were originally presented at the fall 2005 "Adequacy Lawsuits" conference and have been published in the Brookings Institution Press edited volume, School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Adequacy. |
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PEPG 05-24 |
The Inadequacy of Adequacy Guarantees: A Historical Perspective
Joseph P. Viteritti
Hunter College, City University of New York |
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PEPG 05-25 |
When Did Education Become a Civil Right? The 20th Century's Modifications to State Constitutional Provisions for Public Education
John C. Eastman
Chapman University School of Law |
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PEPG 05-26 |
Educational Adequacy as Legal Theory: Implications from Equal Educational Opportunity Doctrine
Michael Heise
Cornell Law School |
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PEPG 05-27 |
Accountability, Adequacy, and the Impact of No Child Left Behind
Andrew Rudalevige
Dickinson College |
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PEPG 05-28 |
The Alchemy of "Costing Out" an Adequate Education
Eric Hanushek
Hoover Institution — Stanford University |
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PEPG 05-29 |
Stimulant or Salve? The Politics of Adequacy Implementation
Frederick M. Hess
American Enterprise Institute |
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PEPG 05-30 |
The Politics of Not Implementing an Adequacy Judgment: The Case of New York
Joe Williams
New York Daily News |
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PEPG 05-31 |
School Finance Judgments and Spending on Education: A Review of the Evidence
Christopher Berry
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago |
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PEPG 05-32 |
Is Teacher Pay 'Adequate'?
Michael Podgursky
University of Missouri - Columbia |
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PEPG 05-33 |
The Relationship between Adequacy and Equity
Richard Briffault
Columbia University School of Law |
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PEPG 05-34 |
Massachusetts' Hancock Case and the Adequacy Doctrine
Robert Costrell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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PEPG 05-35 |
Who Should Govern? Adequacy Litigation and the Separation of Powers
Martha Derthick — University of Virginia
Josh Dunn — University of Colorado at Colorado Springs |
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PEPG 05-36 |
The Judiciary and the Uncertain Future of Adequacy Remedies: A Look to the Past
Kenneth Starr
Pepperdine University School of Law |
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| Papers 'PEPG 04-01' to 'PEPG 04-11' were originally presented at the PEPG conference, "50 Years after Brown: What Has Been Accomplished and What Remains to Be Done?", many of which have been published in: Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap. |
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PEPG 04-01
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Leaving No Black Children Behind
Chester E. Finn, Jr
Fordham Foundation |
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PEPG 04-02 |
The Course of Federal Desegregation Litigation Since Brown:K
How Conflict Gave Way To Collusion
Charles Cooper
Cooper & Kirk |
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PEPG 04-03 |
Preschool Programs and the Achievement Gap:
The Little Train that Could
Ron Haskins
Brookings Institution |
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PEPG 04-04 |
Black Achievement 50 Years after Brown
David Armor
George Mason University |
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PEPG 04-05 |
The "Grutter-Gratz split doubleheader":
The Use of Student Race in School Admission, Attendance, and Transfer Policies at the K-12 Level
John Munich
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, LLP |
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PEPG 04-06 |
Resources and Racial Skill Gaps
Derek Neal
University of Chicago
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PEPG 04-07 |
Educational Adequacy Lawsuits: The Rest of the Story
Alfred A. Lindseth
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, LLC
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PEPG 04-08 |
School Accountability and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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PEPG 04-09 |
Education Accountability: Motivation or Discrimination? A Survey of Legal Theories Used to Challenge and Defend State Accountability Systems
Jane Wilensky
Office of the Attorney General, State of Michigan
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PEPG 04-10 |
School Choice by Mortgage or by Design:
Implications for the Black-White Test-Score Gap
Patrick J. Wolf
Georgetown Public Policy Institute
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PEPG 04-11 |
Delaying the Dream: Legal Obstacles to School Choice
Clint Bolick
Alliance for School Choice
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| Papers 'PEPG 04-12 to PEPG 04-28' were originally presented at the PEPG Conference: "Schooling and Human Capital Formation in the Global Economy: Revisiting the
Equity-Efficiency Quandary"
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PEPG 04-12 |
Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth:
Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data
ANDREW T. YOUNG, University of Mississippi
Daniel Levy, Bar-Ilan University
Matthew J. Higgins, Georgia State University |
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PEPG 04-13 |
Life Cycle Earnings and Wage Premiums
SOFIA SANDGREN
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm |
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PEPG 04-14 |
Unequal Opportunities and Human Capital Formation
DANIEL MEJÍA, Brown University and Banco de la República, Colombia
Marc St-Pierre, Brown University |
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PEPG 04-15 |
How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
LUDGER WOESSMANN
Ifo Institute and CESifo, Munich |
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PEPG 04-16 |
Equalizing Opportunity Through Educational Finance Reform
JULIAN R. BETTS, University of California at San Diego
John E. Roemer, Yale University |
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PEPG 04-17 |
Intergenerational Mobility in Europe: Evidence from ECHP
SIMONA COMI
Università degli Studi di Milano |
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PEPG 04-18 |
Education Systems and Intergenerational Mobility
STEPHEN J. MACHIN
University College London & London School of Economics |
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PEPG 04-19 |
Distributional Outcomes of the Organization of U.S. School:
Peers, School Quality, and Achievement
ERIC A. HANUSHEK
Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
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PEPG 04-20 |
Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools
JACOB VIGDOR and Thomas Nechyba
Duke University |
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PEPG 04-21 |
The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools:
Understanding the Changing Role of Ability
FERNANDO GALINDO-RUEDA, London School of Economics
Anna Vignoles, University of London |
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PEPG 04-22 |
The Optimal Timing of School Tracking
GIORGIO BRUNELLO, University of Padova
Massimo Giannini, University of Molise
Kenn Ariga, Columbia University |
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PEPG 04-23 |
The Effectiveness of Human Capital Policies for Disadvantaged Groups in the Netherlands
HESSEL OOSTERBEEK
Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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PEPG 04-24 |
Student Achievement and Birthday Effects
BJARNE STRØM
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim |
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PEPG 04-25 |
The Impact of Choice on Educational Performance
SIMON BURGESS, Brendon McConnell, Carol Propper, and
Deborah Wilson, University of Bristol |
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PEPG 04-26 |
School Choice and Quality
DANIELE CHECCHI, University of Milano
Tullio Jappelli, University of Salerno
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PEPG 04-27 |
Retrospective Voting in Single Function Elections:
School Boards and Student Achievement
CHRISTOPHER R. BERRY, University of Chicago
William G. Howell, Harvard University |
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PEPG 04-28 |
Educational Reform and Disadvantaged Students:
Are They Better Off or Worse Off?
JOHN H. BISHOP, Cornell University
Ferran Mane, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Reus |
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PEPG 03-01 |
Efficiency, Bias, and Classification Schemes: Estimating Private-School Impacts on Test Scores
in the New York City Voucher Experiment
Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell
Harvard University
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| Papers 'PEPG 03-02' to 'PEPG 03-13' were originally presented at the PEPG Conference:
"School Board Politics"
and have been published in Besieged: School Boards and the Future of Education Politics (Brookings, 2005). |
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PEPG 03-02 |
The Local School District in American Law
Richard M. Briffault
Columbia University Law School
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PEPG 03-03 |
Desegregation and School Board Politics: The Limits of Court-Imposed Policy Change
Luis Fraga, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Nick Rodriguez, Master’s student, Stanford University
Bari Anhalt Erlichson, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, Rutgers University
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PEPG 03-04 |
Whither Localism? No Child Left Behind and the Local Politics of Federal Education Reform
Douglas Reed
Georgetown University
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PEPG 03-05 |
Teacher Unions and School Board Elections
Terry Moe
Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
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PEPG 03-06 |
School House Politics: Expenditures, Interests, and Competition in School Board Elections
Frederick Hess, American Enterprise Institute
David Leal, University of Texas |
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PEPG 03-07 |
Retrospective Voting in Single Function Elections: School Boards, Test Scores, and Incumbents’ Electoral Fortunes
Chris Berry, University of Chicago
William Howell, Harvard University |
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PEPG 03-08 |
Contextual Influences on Participation in Local and School Governance
David Campbell
University of Notre Dame |
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PEPG 03-09 |
Electoral Structure and the Quality of Representation: The Policy Consequences of School Board Elections
Kenneth J. Meier and Eric Gonzalez Juenke
Texas A&M University |
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PEPG 03-10 |
Minority Representation and Local School Boards
Melissa J. Marschall
Rice University |
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PEPG 03-11 |
When Mayors Lead Urban Schools: Toward Developing a Framework to Assess the Effects of Mayoral Takeover of Urban Districts
Kenneth Wong, Vanderbilt University
Francis X. Shen, Harvard University |
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PEPG 03-12 |
School District Consolidation and Student Outcomes: Does Size Matter?
Chris Berry
University of Chicago |
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PEPG 03-13 |
The Market for Hamburgers is Simple Compared to the Market for Charter Schools: McDonalds, Burger King, and Local School Boards
Mark Schneider, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Paul Teske, University of Colorado at Denver
Erin Cassese, State University of New York at Stony Brook |
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PEPG 03-14 |
Latest Results from the New York City Voucher Experiment
Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell
Harvard University |
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PEPG 03-15 |
Participation in a National Means-tested School Voucher Program
David E. Campbell, University of Notre Dame
Martin R. West, Harvard University
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
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PEPG 02-02 |
Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
Ludger Woessmann, CESifo
Martin R. West, Harvard University |
| Papers 'PEPG 02-03' to 'PEPG 02-14' were presented at the PEPG Conference:
"Taking Account of Accountability"
and have been published in No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of Accountability (Brookings, 2003).
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PEPG 02-03
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School Accountability Florida Style:
An Analysis of Recent Trends in Achievement, School Resources and Intervention
Julian Betts
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Public Policy Institute of California and UCSD
Anne Danenberg
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Public Policy Institute of California
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PEPG 02-04 |
Racial Subgroup Rules in School Accountability Systems
Thomas J. Kane
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UCLA
Douglas Staiger
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Dartmouth University
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PEPG 02-05 |
No Child Left Behind, Chicago Style:
What Has Really Been Accomplished?
Anthony Bryk
University of Chicago
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PEPG 02-06 |
Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement Gains: Theory and Evidence
Brian Jacob
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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PEPG 02-07 |
A Prospective Policy Evaluation of the Michigan Merit Award Program
John H. Bishop
Cornell University
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PEPG 02-08 |
Standards and Student Outcomes:
Lessons from the 'First Wave' of Education Reform
Thomas Dee
Swarthmore College
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PEPG 02-09 |
Charter School Achievement and Accountability
Tom Loveless
Brookings Institution
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PEPG 02-10 |
How Central Exams Affect Educational Achievement:
International Evidence from TIMSS and TIMSS-Repeat
Ludger Woessman
CESifo
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PEPG 02-11 |
I Say 'Refining,' You Say 'Retreating': The Politics of High-Stakes Accountability
Frederick M. Hess
American Enterprise Institute
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PEPG 02-12 |
Accountability and Avoidance in the Bush Education Plan:
The 'No Child Left Behind Act of 2001'
Andrew Rudalevige
Dickinson College
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PEPG 02-13 |
Lessons and Limits of State Accountability Systems
Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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PEPG 02-14 |
Politics, Control, and the Future of School Accountability
Terry M. Moe
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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| Papers 'PEPG 02-15' to 'PEPG 02-22' were presented at the PEPG Conference: "What Next for School Vouchers" and were published in The Future of School Choice (Hoover, 2003). |
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PEPG 02-15 |
School Vouchers after Zelman
C. Boyden Gray and Louis R. Cohen
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
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PEPG 02-16 |
School Choice: Sunshine Replaces the Cloud
Clint Bolick
Institute for Justice
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PEPG 02-17 |
Liberalism and School Choice
Peter Berkowitz
George Mason University
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PEPG 02-18 |
Educational Freedom and Accountability: An International Overview
Charles Glenn
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Boston University
Jan de Groof
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College d'Europe Bruges
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PEPG 02-19 |
School Vouchers: Results from Randomized Experiments
Paul E. Peterson
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Harvard University
William Howell
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Harvard university
Patrick J. Wolf
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Georgetown Public Policy Institute
David E. Campbell
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University of Notre Dame
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PEPG 02-20 |
The Voucher-Charter Connection
Bryan Hassel
Public Impact
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PEPG 02-21 |
School Choice through the Tax Code:
Past Limitations, Future Prospects
Martin R. West
Harvard University
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PEPG 02-22 |
Beyond Zelman: An Essay on the Future of Vouchers
Terry M. Moe
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Executive Summary |
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School Choice in New York City after Three Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program
Daniel P. Mayer, David E. Myers, and Christina Clark Tuttle, Mathematica
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
William G. Howell, University of Wisconsin
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Executive Summaries |
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Letter submitted to the Editor of the New York Times, September 17, 2000
Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West, Harvard University
William Howell, University of Wisconsin
Patrick J. Wolf, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
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School Choice in New York City after Two Years:
An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program
David Myers, David Mayer, and Julia Chou, Mathematica Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
William G. Howell, University of Wisconsin |
Test-Score Effects of School Vouchers in Dayton, Ohio; New York City; and Washington D.C.: Evidence from Randomized Field Trials
William G. Howell, University of Wisconsin
Patrick J. Wolf, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell,
Harvard University
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School Choice in Washington D.C.: An Evaluation after One Year
William G. Howell, University of Wisconsin
Patrick J. Wolf, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University |
School Choice in Dayton, Ohio: An Evaluation after One Year
William G. Howell, University of Wisconsin
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University |
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An Evaluation of the New York City School Choice Scholarships Program: The First Year
Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West, Harvard University
David Myers, Mathematica
William Howell, University of Wisconsin
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Initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in Washington D.C. and Dayton, Ohio
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
William G. Howell, University of Wisconsin
Jay P. Greene, Manhattan Policy Institute
William McCready
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Initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in Washington D.C.
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
William G. Howell, University of Wisconsin
Jay P. Greene, Manhattan Policy Institute
William McCready |
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New Findings from the Cleveland Scholarship Program:
A Reanalysis of Data from the Indiana University School of Education Evaluation
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Jay P. Greene, Manhattan Policy Institute
William G. Howell, University of Wisconsin
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