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Download full textEyles, Andrew; Machin, Stephen – Centre for Economic Performance, 2015
We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries--the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies are state schools that are allowed to run in an autonomous manner which is free from local authority control.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Educational Development
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Direct linkLockheed, Marlaine; Harris, Abigail; Jayasundera, Tamara – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
A school improvement program that provided support to poor-performing schools on the basis of needs identified in a school improvement plan was implemented in 72 government schools in Jamaica, from 1998 to 2005. In this independent evaluation of the program, we use propensity score matching to create, post hoc, a control group of schools that were…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Supplementary Reading Materials, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
