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Deming, David James – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The school accountability movement has led to a marked increase in the use of standardized test scores to measure school and teacher productivity, yet little is known about the correlation between test score gains and improvements in long-term outcomes. In the first chapter of my dissertation, I study the impact of a school choice policy in…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Crime, Preschool Education, School Choice
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Chaney, Bradford; Muraskin, Lana D.; Cahalan, Margaret W.; Goodwin, David – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1998
The impact of Student Support Services (SSS), a large federal program to help disadvantaged students complete college, on retention in college was studied with approximately 2,800 SSS participants and similar nonparticipants. SSS had a positive impact for the three measures of retention used, but the impact varied with services used and student…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attainment, Federal Programs