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Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2010
Over 2000 teachers in the state of Washington received reduction-in-force (RIF) notices in the past two years. The authors link data on these RIF notices to a unique dataset that includes student, teacher, school, and district variables to determine the factors that predict the likelihood of a teacher receiving a RIF notice. They find a teacher's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Job Layoff, Teacher Competencies, Predictor Variables
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Asplund, Rita; Abdelkarim, Oussama Ben; Skalli, Ali – Higher Education in Europe, 2009
Most countries have experienced soaring enrolment rates into tertiary education. While this is beneficial both to involved students and to knowledge-based societies, it also makes the funding issue even more crucial than it is usually seen to be. This paper presents first results from an analysis of the effectiveness of student loans as a funding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background, Cohort Analysis, Student Loan Programs