The Junior High School at Work

The Junior High School at Work
Author: Herbert Bascom Bruner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1925
Genre: Education, Secondary
ISBN:

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Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice

Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice
Author: Sean P. Corcoran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

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We conducted a field experiment in 165 high-poverty New York City middle schools to help students navigate a complex high school choice process and access higher-performing schools. Students in treatment schools were given a customized one-page list of proximate high schools with a graduation rate at or above the city median (70%). Some also received a supplemental list highlighting academically non-selective schools or high schools organized by academic interest area. The interventions changed student application behavior in ways that led to more matches to higher-performing schools. While treatment students did not apply to higher graduation rate schools, they applied to schools where their odds of admission were higher, were more likely to receive their first-choice high school, and were less likely to match to a school with a low graduation rate. Our findings also suggest that informational interventions may not reduce inequality, since both disadvantaged and comparatively advantaged students used our materials, and in some cases the latter benefited more from them by applying and matching to more schools on our lists. Students in non-English speaking households, who were particularly responsive to the intervention and were much less likely to match to a low-performing school, were one notable exception to this pattern.

Handbook of Field Experiments

Handbook of Field Experiments
Author: Esther Duflo
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0444640142

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Handbook of Field Experiments, Volume Two explains how to conduct experimental research, presents a catalog of research to date, and describes which areas remain to be explored. The new volume includes sections on field experiments in education in developing countries, how to design social protection programs, a section on how to combat poverty, and updates on data relating to the impact and determinants of health levels in low-income countries. Separating itself from circumscribed debates of specialists, this volume surpasses the many journal articles and narrowly-defined books written by practitioners. This ongoing series will be of particular interest to scholars working with experimental methods. Users will find results from politics, education, and more. Balances methodological insights with analyses of principal findings and suggestions for further research Appeals broadly to social scientists seeking to develop an expertise in field experiments Written in a language that is accessible to graduate students and non-specialist economists

The Junior High School Idea

The Junior High School Idea
Author: Joseph King Van Denburg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 598
Release: 1922
Genre: High schools
ISBN:

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