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Author | Co-author(s) | Dismissive Quote | type | Title | Source | Funders | Link1 | |
1 | Alia Wong (journalist0 | "The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University: This is the first national database of academic performance. Use the project’s “Explorer” tool to scrutinize performance in your school or community using three measures of educational opportunity — average test scores, learning rates, and test score trends." | Firstness | Data/Research: Equity in Education | Education Writers Association | (5) EWA funders | https://www.ewa.org/highlight/dataresearch-equity-education | |
2 | Eric A. Hanushek | Paul Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann | "Given the topic’s importance, it is surprising that trends in SES-achievement gaps are so poorly documented." p.1 | Dismissive | Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Working Paper No. 8111, Munich, Germany | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26764 | |
3 | Eric A. Hanushek | Paul Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann | "The empirical basis for these conclusions is limited." p.2 | Dismissive | Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Working Paper No. 8111, Munich, Germany | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26764 | |
4 | Eric A. Hanushek | Paul Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann | "We add to this sparse literature by providing the first comprehensive analysis of long-run trends in SES-achievement gaps from psychometrically linked data sets." p.2 | 1stness | Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Working Paper No. 8111, Munich, Germany | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26764 | |
5 | Eric A. Hanushek | Paul Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann | "Despite the topic's importance, surprisingly little scholarship has focused on long-term changes in the size of the achievement gap between students from higher and lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Our new research presented here, attempts to fill this void ..."", pp. 1-2 | Dismissive | The Achievement Gap Fails to Close: Half century of testing shows persistent divide between haves and have-nots | Education Next, Summer 2019, 19(3) | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | https://www.educationnext.org/achievement-gap-fails-close-half-century-testing-shows-persistent-divide/ |
6 | Susanna Loeb | Erika Byun | "Despite ongoing political tensions surrounding the CCSS and the lack of strong empirical studies on the effects of the standards (Polikoff 2017), the adoption of CCSS signals a step toward a consistent framework for educating students across the nation." p.99 | Dismissive | Testing, Accountability, and School Improvement | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | AAPSS funders | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716219839929 |
7 | Susanna Loeb | Erika Byun | "Several studies have found variation across states with respect to the content of standards and expectations (Porter, Polikoff, and Smithson 2009; Finn, Julian and Petrilli 2006; Wilson and Berenthal 2005). However, providing causal evidence of standards’ quality and their impact on students is difficult for various technical reasons (Polikoff 2017)." p.99 | Dismissive | Testing, Accountability, and School Improvement | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | AAPSS funders | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716219839929 |
8 | Susanna Loeb | Erika Byun | "However, research on the impacts of state accountability on nontested domains is quite limited, ... " p,103 | Dismissive | Testing, Accountability, and School Improvement | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | AAPSS funders | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716219839929 |
9 | Susanna Loeb | Erika Byun | "As such, test-based accountability may indeed be leading to an inverse relationship between measured and unmeasured goals, but the empirical literature to date does not provide strong evidence of this." p.103 | Dismissive | Testing, Accountability, and School Improvement | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | AAPSS funders | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716219839929 |
10 | Susanna Loeb | Erika Byun | "However, research on the validity and comprehensiveness of observational measures is far less developed than on value-added measures." p.105 | Denigrating | Testing, Accountability, and School Improvement | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | AAPSS funders | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716219839929 |
11 | Susanna Loeb | Erika Byun | The initial evidence on school-level accountability shows potential gains from the new information. Early evidence on teacher-level accountability based on student test performance is not positive, though the use of observational measures shows more promise. p.105 | 1stness | Testing, Accountability, and School Improvement | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | AAPSS funders | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716219839929 |
12 | Susanna Loeb | Erika Byun | The initial evidence on school-level accountability shows potential gains from the new information. Early evidence on teacher-level accountability based on student test performance is not positive, though the use of observational measures shows more promise. p.105 | 1stness | Testing, Accountability, and School Improvement | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | AAPSS funders | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716219839929 |
13 | Jing Liu | Susanna Loeb | "An emerging literature sheds light on teachers’ impact on students’ non-achievement outcomes (e.g., Gershenson, 2016; Jackson, 2018; Kraft, 2017).", p.1 | Dismissive | Engaging Teachers: Measuring theImpact ofTeachersonStudent Attendance in Secondary School | Annenberg / Brown University, EdWorkingPaper No. 19-01 | " ... to thank financial support from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowshipand the Karr Family Fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis." | http://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/EngagingTeachers_2ndSubmission%20%283%29.pdf |
14 | Jing Liu | Susanna Loeb | "The only study looking at non-achievement measures for high school teachers, Jackson (2018), estimates 9th gradeteachers’ effects on a composite measure of student GPA, on-time grade completion, suspensions and full-day attendance.", p.1 | 1stness | Engaging Teachers: Measuring theImpact ofTeachersonStudent Attendance in Secondary School | Annenberg / Brown University, EdWorkingPaper No. 19-01 | " ... to thank financial support from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowshipand the Karr Family Fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis." | http://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/EngagingTeachers_2ndSubmission%20%283%29.pdf |
15 | Jing Liu | Susanna Loeb | " ... we directly test whether teacher value-added to attendance has predictive power forstudent long-term outcomes above and beyond teachers’ impact on student test scores. Only Jackson (2018) has looked at longer-run outcomes.", p.3 | 1stness | Engaging Teachers: Measuring theImpact ofTeachersonStudent Attendance in Secondary School | Annenberg / Brown University, EdWorkingPaper No. 19-01 | " ... to thank financial support from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowshipand the Karr Family Fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis." | http://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/EngagingTeachers_2ndSubmission%20%283%29.pdf |
16 | Jing Liu | Susanna Loeb | "The prior literature has hypothesized about the role of teachersin encouraging or discouraging absences, though very little empirical work has addressed this relationship directly.", p.6 | Dismissive | Engaging Teachers: Measuring theImpact ofTeachersonStudent Attendance in Secondary School | Annenberg / Brown University, EdWorkingPaper No. 19-01 | " ... to thank financial support from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowshipand the Karr Family Fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis." | http://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/EngagingTeachers_2ndSubmission%20%283%29.pdf |
17 | Jing Liu | Susanna Loeb | "The only study looking at non-achievement measures for high school teachers, Jackson (2018), estimated 9th grade teachers’ effects on a composite measure of student GPA, on-time grade completion, suspensions and full-day attendance in North Carolina.", p.7 | 1stness | Engaging Teachers: Measuring theImpact ofTeachersonStudent Attendance in Secondary School | Annenberg / Brown University, EdWorkingPaper No. 19-01 | " ... to thank financial support from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowshipand the Karr Family Fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis." | http://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/EngagingTeachers_2ndSubmission%20%283%29.pdf |
18 | Jing Liu | Susanna Loeb | "An extension of Jackson (2018), our study is only the second study that is able to estimate teachers’effect on student non-test score outcomes and then link this measure to student long-run outcomes.", p.33 | 1stness | Engaging Teachers: Measuring theImpact ofTeachersonStudent Attendance in Secondary School | Annenberg / Brown University, EdWorkingPaper No. 19-01 | " ... to thank financial support from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowshipand the Karr Family Fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis." | http://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/EngagingTeachers_2ndSubmission%20%283%29.pdf |
19 | Jing Liu | Susanna Loeb | "While other studies have assessed teachers’contribution to attendance and find a distinction between teachers who contribute to attendance and those that contribute to achievement, ours is the first along a number of dimensions." p.33–34 | 1stness | Engaging Teachers: Measuring theImpact ofTeachersonStudent Attendance in Secondary School | Annenberg / Brown University, EdWorkingPaper No. 19-01 | " ... to thank financial support from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowshipand the Karr Family Fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis." | http://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/EngagingTeachers_2ndSubmission%20%283%29.pdf |
20 | Annika B. Bergbauer | Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessman | "... both critics and proponents of international and national testing often fail to differentiate among alternative forms and uses of testing, leading to a confused debate." | Denigrating | Testing, p. 1 | NBER Working Paper No. 24836, July, 2018 | Smith-Richardson Foundation & (3) NBER funders | http://hanushek.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Bergbauer%2BHanushek%2BWoessmann%202018%20NBER%20w24836.pdf |
21 | Annika B. Bergbauer | Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessman | "For example, in the United States consideration of testing is mostly restricted to such accountability systems as exemplified by No Child Left Behind (NCLB)." | Dismissive | Testing, p. 1 | NBER Working Paper No. 24836, July, 2018 | Smith-Richardson Foundation & (3) NBER funders | http://hanushek.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Bergbauer%2BHanushek%2BWoessmann%202018%20NBER%20w24836.pdf |
22 | Annika B. Bergbauer | Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessman | "While there have been previous evaluations of the impact of accountability systems, largely within the United States (Figlio and Loeb (2011)), it is unclear how to generalize from these." | Dismissive | Testing, p. 1 | NBER Working Paper No. 24836, July, 2018 | Smith-Richardson Foundation & (3) NBER funders | http://hanushek.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Bergbauer%2BHanushek%2BWoessmann%202018%20NBER%20w24836.pdf |
23 | Matthew Ronfeldt | Kavita Kapadia Matsko, Hillary Greene Nolan, Michelle Reininger | "The search for an empirical basis upon which to make the case for program effectiveness was heightened in the 1990s when alternative pathway policies gained momentum, and university-based preparation pathways faced increased scrutiny. At the time, no such empirical base existed to link preservice preparation to graduates’ workforce outcomes." | Dismissive | Who Knows if our Teachers are Prepared? p.1 | CEPA Working Paper No. 18-01, Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis | Spencer Foundation | |
24 | Matthew Ronfeldt | Kavita Kapadia Matsko, Hillary Greene Nolan, Michelle Reininger | "To our knowledge, no prior studies have examined convergent validity – that measures of self-perceived preparedness are positively related to observable measures of instructional effectiveness." | Dismissive | Who Knows if our Teachers are Prepared? p.1 | CEPA Working Paper No. 18-01, Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis | Spencer Foundation | |
25 | Matthew Ronfeldt | Kavita Kapadia Matsko, Hillary Greene Nolan, Michelle Reininger | "Only in the past two decades have scholars tried to answer this question by linking different preparation programs or features of preparation to workforce outcomes among graduates, including employment, retention, and measures of instructional effectiveness." | Dismissive | Who Knows if our Teachers are Prepared? p.2 | CEPA Working Paper No. 18-01, Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis | Spencer Foundation | |
26 | Daphna Bassok | Thomas Dee, Scott Latham | "However, we know little about whether these accountability reforms operate as theorized." | Dismissive | The Effects of Accountability Incentives in Early Childhood Education, abstract | NBER Working Paper No. 23859, Issued in September 2017 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w23859 |
27 | Daphna Bassok | Thomas Dee, Scott Latham | "This study provides the first empirical evidence on this question using data from North Carolina, a state with a mature QRIS." | 1stness | The Effects of Accountability Incentives in Early Childhood Education, abstract | NBER Working Paper No. 23859, Issued in September 2017 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w23859 |
28 | Camille R. Whitney | Christopher Candelaria | "This article examines effects of NCLB on socioemotional outcomes, a topic that has generated much speculation but little research to date." | Dismissive | The effects of No Child Left Behind on children's socioemotional outcomes, p.1 | AERA Open, July-September 2017, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1 –21. DOI: 10.1177/2332858417726324 | U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (Grant #R305B090016) | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858417726324 |
29 | Camille R. Whitney | Christopher Candelaria | "However, few rigorous large-scale quantitative studies have examined whether high-stakes standardized testing affects socioemotional outcomes." | Denigrating | The effects of No Child Left Behind on children's socioemotional outcomes, p.1 | AERA Open, July-September 2017, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1 –21. DOI: 10.1177/2332858417726324 | U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (Grant #R305B090016) | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858417726324 |
30 | Camille R. Whitney | Christopher Candelaria | "In this article, we aim to address this gap in the literature…" | Dismissive | The effects of No Child Left Behind on children's socioemotional outcomes, p.1 | AERA Open, July-September 2017, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1 –21. DOI: 10.1177/2332858417726324 | U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (Grant #R305B090016) | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858417726324 |
31 | Camille R. Whitney | Christopher Candelaria | "This article contributes to the literature by addressing a gap in our knowledge of the effect of high-stakes testing on students' socioemotional outcomes." | Dismissive | The effects of No Child Left Behind on children's socioemotional outcomes, p.4 | AERA Open, July-September 2017, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1 –21. DOI: 10.1177/2332858417726324 | U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (Grant #R305B090016) | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858417726324 |
32 | Camille R. Whitney | Christopher Candelaria | "In addition, this article contributes new findings based on…" | 1stness | The effects of No Child Left Behind on children's socioemotional outcomes, p.4 | AERA Open, July-September 2017, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1 –21. DOI: 10.1177/2332858417726324 | U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (Grant #R305B090016) | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858417726324 |
33 | Matt Barnum | Sean Reardon (by email) | “There is a general consensus in the research that high school exit exams increase dropout rates, [but] there is little or no evidence that they improve achievement or raise wages of students following high school.” | Dismissive | The Exit Exam Paradox: Did States Raise Standards So High They Then Had to Lower the Bar to Graduate? | The 74, June 12, 2016 | The 74 funders (4) | https://www.the74million.org/article/the-exit-exam-paradox-did-states-raise-standards-so-high-they-then-had-to-lower-the-bar-to-graduate/ |
34 | Sean F. Reardon | reported by Jay Mathews | "The Stanford study provides the first comparable measures of ethnic achievement gaps in every U.S. school district, Reardon said." | 1stness | Why I reject the American obsession with achievement gaps | Washington Post, June 12, 2016 | ||
35 | Alia Wong | Thomas S. Dee, Will Dobbie, Brian A. Jacob, & Jonah Rockoff | "The prevalence of test-score manipulation in the United States is well-documented. ... What hasn’t been well documented are the causes and consequences of such manipulation." | Dismissive | Why Would a Teacher Cheat? Educators often choose to inflate students' scores on standardized tests, and the motivations—and effects—indicate that a little deception isn't always a bad thing. | The Atlantic, April 27, 2016 | (3) NBER funders | https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/04/why-teachers-cheat/480039/ |
36 | Thomas S. Dee | Brian A. Jacob, Will Dobbie, Jonah Rockoff | "…despite widespread concerns over test validity and the manipulation of scores, we know little about the factors that lead educators to manipulate student scores (e.g., accountability policies versus individual students traits). | Dismissive | The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations, p.1 | National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 22165, April 2016 | NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w22165 |
37 | Thomas S. Dee | Brian A. Jacob, Will Dobbie, Jonah Rockoff | "…there is little empirical evidence on whether test score manipulation has any long-run consequences for students' educational outcomes and performance gaps by race, ethnicity, and gender." | Dismissive | The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations, p.1 | National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 22165, April 2016 | NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w22165 |
38 | Thomas S. Dee | Brian A. Jacob, Will Dobbie, Jonah Rockoff | "Our results contribute to an emerging literature that documents both the moral hazard that can be created by test-scoring procedures…. In early work, Jacob and Levitt (2003) find... | Dismissive | The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations, p.3 | National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 22165, April 2016 | NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w22165 |
39 | Thomas S. Dee | Brian A. Jacob, Will Dobbie, Jonah Rockoff | "Our results contribute to an emerging literature that documents both the moral hazard that can be created by test-scoring procedures…. In early work, Jacob and Levitt (2003) find... | Dismissive | The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations, p.3 | National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 22165, April 2016 | NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w22165 |
40 | Melinda Adnot | Thomas Dee, Veronica Katz, James Wyckoff | "Policymakers and researchers … have sought policies to provide all children with effective teachers. The selective retention of effectice teachers has been one of the most-discussed strategies that may contribute to this goal. … However, we know relatively little about how such policies would work in practice. In particular, the capacity of districts to identify effective teachers at the hiring stage is limited (Boyd, et al., 2008, Rockoff & Speroni, 2010, Rockoff, et al., 2011)." | Dismissive | Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS, p.1 | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21922, January 2016 | NBER funders | |
41 | Melinda Adnot | Thomas Dee, Veronica Katz, James Wyckoff | "Futhermore, research and practice have only recently begun making progress on accurately and reliably assessing teacher effectiveness." | Denigrating | Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS, p.1 | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21922, January 2016 | NBER funders | |
42 | Melinda Adnot | Thomas Dee, Veronica Katz, James Wyckoff | "However, we are unaware of any research that documents how the patterns of teacher turnover created by such policies (i.e., the attrition of teachers sanctioned for low performance, other teachers choosing to leave, and the hiring of new teachers) influence student achievement. In this study, we provide such evidence...'" | 1stness | Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS, p.1 | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21922, January 2016 | NBER funders | |
43 | Melinda Adnot | Thomas Dee, Veronica Katz, James Wyckoff | "There is only limited evidence that financial incentives make a difference in retaining teachers generally (Clotfelter, Glennie, Ladd, & Vigdor, 2008; Glazerman & Seifullah, 2012) and high-performing teachers specifically (Dee & Wyckoff, 2015). | Dismissive | Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS, p.4 | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21922, January 2016 | NBER funders | |
44 | Melinda Adnot | Thomas Dee, Veronica Katz, James Wyckoff | "In the absence of real-world evidence on the effects of policies that improve teacher composition, researchers hace simulated the effects of such policies." | Dismissive | Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS, p.4 | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21922, January 2016 | NBER funders | |
45 | Melinda Adnot | Thomas Dee, Veronica Katz, James Wyckoff | "In sum, there is at best limited empirical evidence of the effects of differential retention policies on teacher quality and student achievement. What evidence does directly bear on the issue are simulations dependent on a series of simplifying assumptions." | Dismissive | Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS, p.4 | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21922, January 2016 | NBER funders | |
46 | Thomas Dee | Emily Penner | "An extensive theoretical and qualitative literature stresses the promise of instructional practices and content aligned with the cultural experiences of minority students. ... However, the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of these courses is limited." | Dismissive | The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21865, January 2016 | "Financial support for this research came from the Stanford GSE Incentive Fund for Projects in SFUSD and from the Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Training Fellowship under award number R305B130017." & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w21865 |
47 | Thomas Dee | Emily Penner | "... the available quantitative evidence on the causal effects of ES courses (and, culturally relevant pedagogy, in general) on student outcomes is limited, ... This study provides such evidence …" | Denigrating | The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21865, January 2016 | "Financial support for this research came from the Stanford GSE Incentive Fund for Projects in SFUSD and from the Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Training Fellowship under award number R305B130017." & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w21865 |
48 | Thomas Dee | Emily Penner | "While the expansion of ES courses illustrates both their appeal and concerns, the quantitative evidence on their effects is relatively limited. Furthermore, the evidence that is available relies on research designs that cannot necessarily support credible causal inference." | Dismissive, Denigrating | The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21865, January 2016 | "Financial support for this research came from the Stanford GSE Incentive Fund for Projects in SFUSD and from the Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Training Fellowship under award number R305B130017." & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w21865 |
49 | Thomas Dee | Emily Penner | "To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the effect of any type of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in a quantitative study that supports credible causal inferences." | 1stness | The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #21865, January 2016 | "Financial support for this research came from the Stanford GSE Incentive Fund for Projects in SFUSD and from the Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Training Fellowship under award number R305B130017." & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w21865 |
50 | Eric A. Hanushek | Marc Piopiunik, Simon Wiederhold | Student performance differs greatly across countries, but little is known about the role of teacher quality in explaining these differences. New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow quantifying country-specific teacher skills in numeracy and literacy for the first time. | Dismissive | The Impact of Teacher Skills on Student Performance across Countries, Abstract | CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education, 12-13 September, 2014 | ||
51 | Eric A. Hanushek | Marc Piopiunik, Simon Wiederhold | While previous studies stressed the importance of institutional features of the schooling systems in explaining these differences, the potential role of teacher quality has remained largely unexplored. This paper investigates the extent to which differences in measured teacher skills across the most developed countries can explain international differences in student performance. | Denigrating | The Impact of Teacher Skills on Student Performance across Countries, p.1 | CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education, 12-13 September, 2014 | ||
52 | Eric A. Hanushek | Marc Piopiunik, Simon Wiederhold | Our analysis exploits new international data in order to test rigorously these hypotheses and conclusions. Using recent international data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we can for the first time quantify differences in teacher skills in numeracy and literacy. | 1stness | The Impact of Teacher Skills on Student Performance across Countries, p.1 | CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education, 12-13 September, 2014 | ||
53 | Eric A. Hanushek | Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann | The skills of the population are generally viewed as a key ingredient in modern knowledge based economies (e.g., Hanushek and Woessmann (2008)). However, existing evidence on the returns to skills in the labor market is surprisingly limited, coming almost exclusively from earnings of early-career workers in the United States. As a result, any sense of how rewards to skills evolve over the work life or of how they might differ across economies is absent | Dismissive | Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC, p.1 | CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education, 12-13 September, 2014 | ||
54 | Eric A. Hanushek | Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann | New international data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) dramatically changes the ability to understand how economies value skills. Using these data, this paper provides new insights into the value of skills in different economic settings by developing estimates of the earnings returns to cognitive skills across the entire labor force for 23 countries. | Dismissive | Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC, p.1 | CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education, 12-13 September, 2014 | ||
55 | Eric A. Hanushek | Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann | While assessments of the achievement of students are common, tested students are seldom followed from school into the labor market where the impact of differential skills can be observed. | Denigrating | Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC, p.1 | CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education, 12-13 September, 2014 | ||
56 | Eric A. Hanushek | Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann | Bowles, Gintis, and Osborne (2001) provide an early survey of studies of achievement effects, and Hanushek and Woessmann (2008) and Hanushek and Rivkin (2012) survey more recent evidence. | Dismissive | Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC, p.1 | CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education, 12-13 September, 2014 | ||
57 | Eric A. Hanushek | Marc Piopiunik, Simon Wiederhold | "Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries." Abstract | Denigrating | The
value of smarter teachers: International evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance |
Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series, PEPG 14-06 | Harvard Kennedy School | https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/PDF/Papers/PEPG14_06_Hanushek_Piopiunik_Wiederhold.pdf |
58 | Eric A. Hanushek | Marc Piopiunik, Simon Wiederhold | "But less considered is how the overall skills of a nation feed back into the skills of teachers. This paper investigates…" p.1 | Dismissive | The
value of smarter teachers: International evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance |
Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series, PEPG 14-06 | Harvard Kennedy School | https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/PDF/Papers/PEPG14_06_Hanushek_Piopiunik_Wiederhold.pdf |
59 | Thomas Dee | James Wycoff | "Furthermore, decades of empirical research have provided relatively little evidence on observed teacher traits that can consistently predict teacher quality." p.1 | Dismissive, Denigrating | Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #19529, Issued in October 2013 | "We received financial support for this research from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). CALDER is supported by IES Grant R305A060018." | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19529 |
60 | Thomas Dee | James Wycoff | "Despite the prevalence of teacher-compensation reforms, the available empirical evidence on the effects of teacher incentives has, until quite recently, been thin and methodologically weak" p.6 | Dismissive, Denigrating | Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT | National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #19529, Issued in October 2013 | "We received financial support for this research from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). CALDER is supported by IES Grant R305A060018." | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19529 |
61 | Gregory F. Branch | Eric A. Hanushek, Steven G. Rivkin | "Yet until very recently there was little rigorous research demonstrating the importance of principal quality for student outcomes, much less the specific practices that cause some principals to be more successful than others. As is often the case in education policy discussions, we have relied on anecdotes instead." | Dismissive, Denigrating | School leaders matter: Measuring the impact of effective principals | Education Next, Winter 2013 / Vol. 13, No. 1 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | http://educationnext.org/school-leaders-matter/ |
62 | Gregory F. Branch | Eric A. Hanushek, Steven G. Rivkin | "Strong leadership is viewed as especially important for revitalization of failing schools. To date, however, this discussion has been largely uninformed by systematic analysis of principals’ impact on student outcomes." | Dismissive, Denigrating | School leaders matter: Measuring the impact of effective principals | Education Next, Winter 2013 / Vol. 13, No. 1 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | http://educationnext.org/school-leaders-matter/ |
63 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | Christopher Avery | “The sheer comprehensiveness and accuracy of our data is [sic] what allow us to form strong hypotheses about why some high-achieving, low-income students are income-typical and others are achievement-typical.” p. 3 | 1stness | The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students | NBER Working Paper 18586, 2012 | http://health-equity.pitt.edu/4124/1/THE_MISSING.pdf | |
64 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | Christopher Avery | “Relative to those studies, our study's strengths are its comprehensiveness; . . . complete characterization of each U.S. high school; . . . ability to map students; and . . . .use of accurate administrative data. . . .” | Denigrating | The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students | NBER Working Paper 18586, 2012 | http://health-equity.pitt.edu/4124/1/THE_MISSING.pdf | |
65 | Eric Bettinger | "Coshocton is the first study in economics to focus on financial incentives for student achievement in primary schools." | 1stness | PAYING TO LEARN: THE EFFECT OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES ON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEST SCORES | NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, Working Paper 16333 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w16333 | |
66 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | "The difference between education and medicine is not that improvement is impossible in education but possible in medicine. It is not that all children are difficult to manage and all patients are easy to manage. The difference is that education has not, until recently, benefitted from rigorous, scientific research." p.1 | Denigrating | testimony to Congress, Nov.16, 2011 | ||||
67 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | "Until ESRA, much of the U.S. Department of Education's budget for research was wasted on studies that were widely recognized to be unreliable." p.1 | Denigrating | testimony to Congress, Nov.16, 2011 | ||||
68 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | "In short, prior to ESRA, Department of Education-funded research routinely provided misinformation to American families and schools." p.2 | Denigrating | testimony to Congress, Nov.16, 2011 | ||||
69 | Matthew Ronfeldt | Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff | "Yet, there exists little empirical evidence for a direct effect of teacher turnover on student achievement (Guin, 2004)." p.1 | Dismissive | How teacher turnover harms student achievement | NBER Working Paper 17176 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w17176 |
70 | Matthew Ronfeldt | Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff | "A growing body of evidence indicates that teachers who produce higher student achievement gains are at least as likely, and sometimes more likely, to stay in schools than their less effective peers (Boyd et al, 2010; Goldhaber, D., Gross, B., and Player, D., 2007; Hanushek & Rivkin, 2010)." p.1 | Dismissive | How teacher turnover harms student achievement | NBER Working Paper 17176 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w17176 |
71 | Matthew Ronfeldt | Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff | " ...we still know very little about the overall effect of attrition on students." p.3 | Dismissive | How teacher turnover harms student achievement | NBER Working Paper 17176 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w17176 |
72 | Matthew Ronfeldt | Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff | "This study finds some of the first empirical evidence for a direct effect of teacher turnover on student achievement." p.17 | 1stness | How teacher turnover harms student achievement | NBER Working Paper 17176 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w17176 |
73 | Eric P. Bettinger | "Coshocton is the first study in economics to focus on financial incentives for student achievement in primary schools." p.1 | 1stness | PAYING TO LEARN: THE EFFECT OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES ON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEST SCORES | NBER Working Paper 16333, September 2010 | (1) NBER funders | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16333 | |
74 | Susanna Loeb | Luke C. Miller, Katherine O. Strunk | "Research on the effects of such policies is still in the early stages, and more attention is needed to determine the effectiveness of states' professional development policies." | Dismissive | Teacher Professional Development and Education Throughout Teachers' Careers, abstract | Education Finance and Policy | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/edfp.2009.4.2.212 | |
75 | E. P. Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "Despite the growing debate and the thousands of under prepared students who enter college each year, there is almost no research on the impact of remediation on student outcomes. This project addresses this critical issue..." | Dismissive | Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work? | NBER Working Paper No. 11325, 2009 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | |
76 | E. P. Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "...approximately one-third of entering postsecondary students require remedial or developmental work before entering college-level courses. However, little is known about the causal impact of remediation on student outcomes. ...This project..." | Dismissive | Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work? | NBER Working Paper No. 11325, 2009 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | |
77 | Sean F. Reardon | Nicole Arshan, Allison Ateberry, Michal Kurlaender | "The effects of exit exam policies, however, remain somewhat unclear, despite a number of recent studies." | Dismissive | High Stakes, No Effects: Effects of Failing the California High School Exit Exam, p.2 | Paper prepared for the International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, September 5‐8, 2008 | The research reported here was supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation and by the Hewlett Foundation through a grant to the Institute for Research on Educational Policy and Practice at Stanford University. | |
78 | Sean F. Reardon | Nicole Arshan, Allison Ateberry, Michal Kurlaender | "Fewer studies have estimated the effects of failing a high stakes exit exam on subsequent student academic outcomes. Several early studies in this area relied on student‐level data to estimate the effect of initially failing an exit exam on high school completion." | Dismissive | High Stakes, No Effects: Effects of Failing the California High School Exit Exam, pp.9-10 | Paper prepared for the International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, September 5‐8, 2008 | The research reported here was supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation and by the Hewlett Foundation through a grant to the Institute for Research on Educational Policy and Practice at Stanford University. | |
79 | Sean F. Reardon | Nicole Arshan, Allison Ateberry, Michal Kurlaender | "Each of the two early papers" [1989 and 1996] "described above rely on regression adjustment to estimate the effects of failing an exit exam." | Dismissive | High Stakes, No Effects: Effects of Failing the California High School Exit Exam, pp.9-10 | Paper prepared for the International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, September 5‐8, 2008 | The research reported here was supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation and by the Hewlett Foundation through a grant to the Institute for Research on Educational Policy and Practice at Stanford University. | |
80 | Sean F. Reardon | Nicole Arshan, Allison Ateberry, Michal Kurlaender | "Both of these recent papers provide significant improvements to our knowledge of the effects of exit exams on student persistence and graduation. ...In fact, there is little evidence on the effects of exit exams on achievement. One exception is Jacob (2001)." | Denigrating | High Stakes, No Effects: Effects of Failing the California High School Exit Exam, p.11 | Paper prepared for the International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, September 5‐8, 2008 | "The research reported here was supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation and by the Hewlett Foundation through a grant to the Institute for Research on Educational Policy and Practice at Stanford University." | |
81 | Thomas Dee | Martin R. West | "Although recent evidence suggests that non-cognitive skills such as engagement matter for academic and economic success, there is little evidence on how key educational inputs affect the development of these skills." | Dismissive | The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size, abstract | NBER Working Paper No. 13994, Issued in May 2008 | (5) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w13994 |
82 | Thomas Dee | Martin R. West | "Yet while numerous researchers have hypothesized that smaller classes could improve non cognitive skills, there exists little reliable evidence on their effects on these types of outcomes." p.2 | Dismissive, Denigrating | The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size, p.2 | NBER Working Paper No. 13994, Issued in May 2008 | (5) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w13994 |
83 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "The final strand of relevant literature pertains to accountability itself. ... Much of the work is very new and has not appeared in journals yet. The available studies generally support the view that accountability has had a positive effect on student outcomes, although the limited observations introduce some uncertainty (Carnoy & Loeb, 2002; Hanushek & Raymond, 2003b; Jacob, 2003; Peterson & West, 2003)." | Dismissive | Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?, p.300 | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 24, No. 2, 297–327 (2005) | "This research was supported by the Packard Humanities Institute." | |
84 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "The existing analyses of accountability and state differences in performance (Carnoy & Loeb, 2002; Hanushek & Raymond, 2003b), ... " | Dismissive | Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?, p.300 | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 24, No. 2, 297–327 (2005) | "This research was supported by the Packard Humanities Institute." | |
85 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "States began experimenting with school accountability systems during the 1980s, but the decade of 1990s began the age of accountability." | Dismissive | Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?, p.306 | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 24, No. 2, 297–327 (2005) | "This research was supported by the Packard Humanities Institute." | |
86 | Thomas S. Dee | Benjamin J. Keys | "Despite widespread pessimism among educators about whether merit pay systems can effectively reward good teachers, most of the limited empirical evidence has been surprisingly positive." | Dismissive | Dollars and sense: What a Tennessee experiment tells us about merit pay | Education Next, Winter 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 1 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | http://educationnext.org/dollars-and-sense/ |
87 | Thomas S. Dee | "However, we actually know very little about how differences between a teacher’s race and those of her students affect the learning environment. This study…" | Dismissive | The race connection: Are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity? | Education Next, Winter 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 1 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | http://educationnext.org/the-race-connection/ | |
88 | Thomas S. Dee | "However, there is surprisingly little empirical evidence on the relationship between students’ exposure to teachers of their own race and their subsequent academic performance." | Dismissive | The race connection: Are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity? | Education Next, Winter 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 1 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | http://educationnext.org/the-race-connection/ | |
89 | Thomas S. Dee | "And the available studies, all of which rely on observational data to compare the test scores of students with different kinds of teachers, actually find that having a teacher of the same race has little impact. However, the inferences based on conventional data sets could be quite misleading. For example, if lower-performing black students are more likely to be assigned to black teachers, the effects of such teachers will be underestimated." | Denigrating | The race connection: Are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity? | Education Next, Winter 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 1 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | http://educationnext.org/the-race-connection/ | |
90 | Thomas S. Dee | "This study presents new evidence on the test-score consequences of a teacher’s race by…" | 1stness | The race connection: Are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity? | Education Next, Winter 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 1 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | http://educationnext.org/the-race-connection/ | |
91 | Eric Hanushek | Margaret Raymond | "The final strand of relevant literature pertains to accountability itself. Although a recent policy effort, policies related to accountability have already become quite controversial – rising to the level of front page stories in the New York Times (Winter (2002)), Much of the work is very new and has not appeared journals yet." p.5 | Dismissive | DOES SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY LEAD TO IMPROVED STUDENT PERFORMANCE? | NBER Working Paper 10591, June 2004 | This work was supported by the Packard Humanities Institute. | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10591 |
92 | Eric Hanushek | Margaret Raymond | "The available studies generally support the view that accountability has had a positive effect on student outcomes, although the limited observations introduce some uncertainty (Carnoy and Loeb (2002); Hanushek and Raymond (2003b); Jacob (2003); Peterson and West (2003))." | Dismissive | DOES SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY LEAD TO IMPROVED STUDENT PERFORMANCE? | NBER Working Paper 10591, June 2004 | This work was supported by the Packard Humanities Institute. | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10591 |
93 | Eric Hanushek | Margaret Raymond | "Nonetheless, as we return to below, little analysis provides information on the longer run outcomes of this nature [on gaming accountability programs]" | Dismissive | DOES SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY LEAD TO IMPROVED STUDENT PERFORMANCE? | NBER Working Paper 10591, June 2004 | This work was supported by the Packard Humanities Institute. | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10591 |
94 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "Adoption of statewide accountability systems for schools has been one of the most striking reforms in American education policy in the past twenty-five years. The change in focus away from inputs and processes and toward out comes marks a dramatic shift in orientation. And yet we know little so far about how well these systems work. The lack of evidence on accountability...", p.406 | Dismissive | The Effect of School Accountability Systems on the Level and Distribution of Student Achievement | Journal of the European Economic Association April–May 2004 2(2–3):406 – 415 | ||
95 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "The difficulty is that little progress has been made in describing explicitly the different policies, regulations, and incentives that might be important in determining student performance." | Dismissive | The
Effect of School Accountability Systems on the Level and Distribution of
Student Achievement |
Journal of the European Economic Association April–May 2004 2(2–3):406 – 415 | ||
96 | Eric Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "Despite the growing debate and the thousands of under prepared students who enter college each year, there is almost no research on the impact of remediation on student outcomes." | Dismissive | SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT: THE EFFECTS OF REMEDIATION ON STUDENTS AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES | NBER Working Paper 10369, March 2004, abstract | Lumina Foundation provided crucial funding to aid in this research. & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10369 |
97 | Eric Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "However, despite the proliferation of remediation, little is known about its effects on student outcomes." | Dismissive | SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT: THE EFFECTS OF REMEDIATION ON STUDENTS AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES | NBER Working Paper 10369, March 2004, p.1 | Lumina Foundation provided crucial funding to aid in this research. & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10369 |
98 | Eric Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "Despite the growing debate on remediation and the thousands of underprepared students who enter the nation’s higher education institutions each year, little is known about the effects of remediation on student outcomes." | Dismissive | SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT: THE EFFECTS OF REMEDIATION ON STUDENTS AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES | NBER Working Paper 10369, March 2004, p.2 | Lumina Foundation provided crucial funding to aid in this research. & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10369 |
99 | Eric Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "After assessing the literature on remediation, the Ohio Board of Regents (2001) concluded that there were no benchmarks by which to judge the success of higher education's remediation efforts. Likewise, two reviews of the literature on remedial and developmental education found the bulk of studies to be seriously flawed methodologically (O’Hear and MacDonald, 1995; Boylan and Saxon, 1999). ... As noted by Phipps (1998), “conjecture and criticism have filled the void created by the lack of basic information.” | Denigrating | SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT: THE EFFECTS OF REMEDIATION ON STUDENTS AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES | NBER Working Paper 10369, March 2004, pp.2-3 | Lumina Foundation provided crucial funding to aid in this research. & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10369 |
100 | Eric Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "The lack of analysis on the effects of remediation is partly due to a lack of data." | Dismissive | SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT: THE EFFECTS OF REMEDIATION ON STUDENTS AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES | NBER Working Paper 10369, March 2004, pp.2-3 | Lumina Foundation provided crucial funding to aid in this research. & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10369 |
101 | Eric Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "...this paper addresses a hole in the literature and discusses how higher education attempts to assimilate under prepared students and train them for future college-level work and labor market success. " | Dismissive | SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT: THE EFFECTS OF REMEDIATION ON STUDENTS AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES | NBER Working Paper 10369, March 2004, p.3 | Lumina Foundation provided crucial funding to aid in this research. & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10369 |
102 | Eric Bettinger | Bridget T. Long | "Additionally, given the system-wide nature of the data, we are able to distinguish between students who withdraw from school altogether and those who transfer to any other Ohio public colleges, an improvement over the information available in most studies." | Denigrating | SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT: THE EFFECTS OF REMEDIATION ON STUDENTS AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES | NBER Working Paper 10369, March 2004, p.4 | Lumina Foundation provided crucial funding to aid in this research. & (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10369 |
103 | Eric Bettinger | "The Pell Grant program is the largest means-tested financial assistance available to postsecondary students across the United States, yet researchers have only limited evidence on the causal effects of these grants." | Dismissive | HOW FINANCIAL AID AFFECTS PERSISTENCE, abstract | NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, Working Paper 10242, January 2004 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10242 | |
104 | Eric Bettinger | "Yet despite this continued expansion of Pell, researchers have only limited evidence on the causal effects of these grants." | Dismissive | HOW FINANCIAL AID AFFECTS PERSISTENCE, p.1 | NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, Working Paper 10242, January 2004 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10242 | |
105 | Eric Bettinger | "However, there is surprisingly little research measuring the causal effect of Pell grants on student outcomes in college (e.g. persistence, graduation)." p.1 | Dismissive | HOW FINANCIAL AID AFFECTS PERSISTENCE, p.1 | NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, Working Paper 10242, January 2004 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10242 | |
106 | Eric Bettinger | "There
are a number of reasons why more research has not
investigated the effects of Pell grants on student
collegiate outcomes. One reason is that researchers have difficulty distinguishing between the effects of family characteristics and the effects of Pell grants." p.2 |
Dismissive | HOW FINANCIAL AID AFFECTS PERSISTENCE, p.2 | NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, Working Paper 10242, January 2004 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10242 | |
107 | Eric Bettinger | "A final reason that researchers have been unable to identify the effects of Pell grants on outcomes is the absence of accurate data, in particular, the absence of accurate persistence and detailed financial data." p.3 | Dismissive | HOW FINANCIAL AID AFFECTS PERSISTENCE, p.3 | NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, Working Paper 10242, January 2004 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10242 | |
108 | Eric Bettinger | "To examine the effects of Pell, this paper presents evidence from data gathered by the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR). These data do not have the shortcomings of other datasets and offer a level of detail on both persistence and financial variables that is not available in other data." p.4 | Dismissive | HOW FINANCIAL AID AFFECTS PERSISTENCE, p.4 | NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, Working Paper 10242, January 2004 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10242 | |
109 | Thomas S. Dee | "The available evidence on the influence of minimum-competency exams and higher curricular standards on educational attainment and employability is not only scant but often contradictory." | Dismissive | Learning to earn: How high standards affect graduation and employment | Education Next, Summer 2003 / Vol. 3, No. 3 | Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute | http://educationnext.org/learningtoearn/ | |
110 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond, Paul E. Peterson (Ed.), Martin R. West (Ed.) | "While research on the outcomes of accountability systems is growing rapidly, it still represents a young and highly selective body of work." | Dismissive | "Lessons about the Design of State Accountability Systems." | in No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of Accountability, Washington, DC: Brookings, 2003, pp. 126-151. | (2) Brookings Institution funders | |
111 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “The productivity implications of choice have been sadly neglected by the literature on school choice.” p. 293 | Dismissive | School Choice and School Productivity. Could School Choice Be a Tide that Lifts All Boats? | The Economics of School Choice, January 2003 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10091.pdf | |
112 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “Although a great deal of research has dealt indirectly with school productivity (most famously, the “does money matter?” debate), productivity has been neglected by research on school choice.” p. 287 | Dismissive | School Choice and School Productivity. Could School Choice Be a Tide that Lifts All Boats? | The Economics of School Choice, January 2003 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10091.pdf | |
113 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “[T]his body of research [on school productivity] is often silent about this fact (and almost never controls for it).” p. 295 | Dismissive, Denigrating | School Choice and School Productivity. Could School Choice Be a Tide that Lifts All Boats? | The Economics of School Choice, January 2003 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10091.pdf | |
114 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “Endogenous school choice in areas with bad public schools generates bias if a researcher naively estimates the effect of choice on productivity.” p. 303 | Denigrating | School Choice and School Productivity. Could School Choice Be a Tide that Lifts All Boats? | The Economics of School Choice, January 2003 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10091.pdf | |
115 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “There are, however, several problems with using wages and income to measure achievement, including a paucity of data linked to schools, questionable validity for women, and the impossibility of analyzing a reform until at least twenty years after its occurrence.” p. 305 | Denigrating | School Choice and School Productivity. Could School Choice Be a Tide that Lifts All Boats? | The Economics of School Choice, January 2003 | (3) NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10091.pdf | |
116 | Thomas S. Dee | "Though the adoption of these reforms [standards-based accountability from 1975 on] occurred with much fanfare, there has been surprisingly little study since then of their consequences." p.3 | Dismissive | "Standards and Student Outcomes: Lessons from the 'First Wave' of Education Refomr | Prepared for "Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Politics and Policy" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, June 10–11, 2002 | "I would like to thank the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking and Management for its financial support." | ||
117 | Thomas S. Dee | "Given that one might expect that the first-wave reforms have been subjected to exhaustive empirical evaluaion. Surprisingly, there is relatively little empirical evidence on the consequences of these policies that would allow us to sort through these conflicting theoretical predictions." p.5 | Dismissive | "Standards and Student Outcomes: Lessons from the 'First Wave' of Education Refomr | Prepared for "Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Politics and Policy" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, June 10–11, 2002 | "I would like to thank the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking and Management for its financial support." | ||
118 | Thomas S. Dee | "Furthermore, what evidence is available is often directly contradictory. Most of the prior studies have focuses on how minimum competency tests influenced student achievement as measured by test scores." p.6 | Denigrating | "Standards and Student Outcomes: Lessons from the 'First Wave' of Education Refomr | Prepared for "Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Politics and Policy" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, June 10–11, 2002 | "I would like to thank the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking and Management for its financial support." | ||
119 | Thomas S. Dee | "The evidence on how course-taking standards influenced achievement and educational attainment is more limited." p.6 | Dismissive | "Standards and Student Outcomes: Lessons from the 'First Wave' of Education Refomr | Prepared for "Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Politics and Policy" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, June 10–11, 2002 | "I would like to thank the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking and Management for its financial support." | ||
120 | Thomas S. Dee | "The available evidence on how CGR influenced educational attainment is also mixed." p.6 | Denigrating | "Standards and Student Outcomes: Lessons from the 'First Wave' of Education Refomr | Prepared for "Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Politics and Policy" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, June 10–11, 2002 | "I would like to thank the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking and Management for its financial support." | ||
121 | Thomas S. Dee | "A drawback of prior empirical studies is that they have not directly addressed claims about whether these graduation standards would be particularly harmful or beneficial to minority students." p.7 | Denigrating | "Standards and Student Outcomes: Lessons from the 'First Wave' of Education Refomr | Prepared for "Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Politics and Policy" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, June 10–11, 2002 | "I would like to thank the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking and Management for its financial support." | ||
122 | Eric A. Hanushek | reported by Lynn Olson | "Most of the evidence is unpublished at this point and the answers that exist are partial at best." | Dismissive | Accountability Studies Find Mixed Impact on Achievement | Education Week. June 19, p.13, 2002. | (1) Education Week funders | |
123 | Eric A. Hanushek, Margaret E. Raymond | Williamson M. Evers & Herbert J. Walberg, Eds. | "If one is interested in outcomes, one should focus on outcomes. As simple as this principle might be, it has not been recognized previously." p.81 | Dismissive, Denigrating | Sorting Out Accountability Systems | School Accountability, Hoover Institution Press, 2002 | Koret Foundation, Tad & Dianne Taube, Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Boyd & Jill Smith, Jack & Mary Lois Wheatley, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, Jerry & Patti Hume, Doris & Donald Fisher, Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation | |
124 | Eric A. Hanushek, Margaret E. Raymond | Williamson M. Evers & Herbert J. Walberg, Eds. | "At the outset, it is important to recognize that there is little experience in the design and operation of educational accountability systems and their elements." pp.99-1000 | Dismissive | Sorting Out Accountability Systems | School Accountability, Hoover Institution Press, 2002 | Koret Foundation, Tad & Dianne Taube, Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Boyd & Jill Smith, Jack & Mary Lois Wheatley, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, Jerry & Patti Hume, Doris & Donald Fisher, Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation | |
125 | Eric A. Hanushek, Margaret E. Raymond | Williamson M. Evers & Herbert J. Walberg, Eds. | "We do not know much about how best to accumulate knowledge or even about which directions schools might take to improve." p.100 | Dismissive | Sorting Out Accountability Systems | School Accountability, Hoover Institution Press, 2002 | Koret Foundation, Tad & Dianne Taube, Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Boyd & Jill Smith, Jack & Mary Lois Wheatley, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, Jerry & Patti Hume, Doris & Donald Fisher, Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation | |
126 | Eric A. Hanushek, Margaret E. Raymond | Williamson M. Evers & Herbert J. Walberg, Eds. | "Again, little is known about any collateral impact of accountability structures and their resulting incentives on the efficiency of resource usage." p.102 | Dismissive | Sorting Out Accountability Systems | School Accountability, Hoover Institution Press, 2002 | Koret Foundation, Tad & Dianne Taube, Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Boyd & Jill Smith, Jack & Mary Lois Wheatley, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, Jerry & Patti Hume, Doris & Donald Fisher, Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation | |
127 | Eric A. Hanushek, Margaret E. Raymond | Williamson M. Evers & Herbert J. Walberg, Eds. | "past reearch has produced no clear indication of what precisely helps students learn. Continuing research into the determinants of performance may be part of the anwer, but so far such research has yet to be successful, and it is unlikely to provide any immediate guidance." pp.102-103 | Dismissive, Denigrating | Sorting Out Accountability Systems | School Accountability, Hoover Institution Press, 2002 | Koret Foundation, Tad & Dianne Taube, Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Boyd & Jill Smith, Jack & Mary Lois Wheatley, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, Jerry & Patti Hume, Doris & Donald Fisher, Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation | |
128 | Eric A. Hanushek, Margaret E. Raymond | Williamson M. Evers & Herbert J. Walberg, Eds. | "All current testing is focused on meeting an initial set of standards that are assumed to reflect the set of knowledge that adequately prepares students for their postschooling years. There is surprisingly little attempt to match this with subsequent performance. The research on this is also quite thin." p.103 | Dismissive, Denigrating | Sorting Out Accountability Systems | School Accountability, Hoover Institution Press, 2002 | Koret Foundation, Tad & Dianne Taube, Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Boyd & Jill Smith, Jack & Mary Lois Wheatley, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, Jerry & Patti Hume, Doris & Donald Fisher, Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation | |
129 | Eric A. Hanushek, Margaret E. Raymond | Williamson M. Evers & Herbert J. Walberg, Eds. | "Concentrating on student performance is a very important and positive change in how we view schools. Nonetheless, although the movement toward performance-based systems offers the best chance for improvement, the journey has just begun." p.104 | Dismissive | Sorting Out Accountability Systems | School Accountability, Hoover Institution Press, 2002 | Koret Foundation, Tad & Dianne Taube, Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Boyd & Jill Smith, Jack & Mary Lois Wheatley, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, Jerry & Patti Hume, Doris & Donald Fisher, Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation | |
130 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "While research on the outcomes of accountability systems is growing rapidly, it still represents a young and highly selective body of work." | Dismissive | "Lessons about the Design of State Accountability Systems." | Paper prepared for "Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Policy and Politics" Harvard University. June 9-11, 2002. | ||
131 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "While research on the outcomes of accountability systems is growing rapidly, it still represents a young and highly selective body of work." | Dismissive | "Improving
Educational Quality: How Best to Evaluate Our Schools?" |
Paper prepared for "Education in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World." Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. June 2002. | ||
132 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | Up to this point, researchers have focused on test quality and simply assumed that the programs are expensive enough to crowd out other policies, such as class size reduction or higher teacher salaries. Researchers have also assumed that it is so expensive to have a good accountability program (which includes good comprehensive tests, well-defined standards, an effective report card system, and safeguards that prevent cheating and teaching the test) that only poor accountability systems will be affordable.” (abstract) | Denigrating | The Cost of Accountability | NBER Working Paper No. 8855, April 2002 | NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w8855.pdf | |
133 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "The few available analyses of the distribution of student performance after changes in funding distributions required by courts also have shown little evidence of narrowed variation in student results (Downes, 1992; Hanushek and Somers, 2001)." p.367 | Dismissive | "The Confusing World of Educational Accountability" | National Tax Journal 54(2):365-384, May 2001 DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2001.2.08 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292412159_The_Confusing_World_of_Educational_Accountability | |
134 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "Again, little is known about any collateral impact of accountability structures and their resulting incentives on the efficiency of resource usage." p.381 | Dismissive | "The Confusing World of Educational Accountability" | National Tax Journal 54(2):365-384, May 2001 DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2001.2.08 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292412159_The_Confusing_World_of_Educational_Accountability | |
135 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "Past research into the determinants of student performance—whether looking at teacher characteristics, specialized programs, or management and leadership—has not produced clear indications of how systematically to improve student performance." p.382 | Dismissive, Denigrating | "The Confusing World of Educational Accountability" | National Tax Journal 54(2):365-384, May 2001 DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2001.2.08 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292412159_The_Confusing_World_of_Educational_Accountability | |
136 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "... on–going research into the specific determinants of performance has yet to be very successful and is unlikely to provide any immediate guidance to school personnel. This inherent and potentially serious weakness must be recognized." p.382 | Dismissive, Denigrating | "The Confusing World of Educational Accountability" | National Tax Journal 54(2):365-384, May 2001 DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2001.2.08 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292412159_The_Confusing_World_of_Educational_Accountability | |
137 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "All testing is focused internally, and there is surprisingly little attempt to match this with subsequent performance. The research on this is also quite thin." p.382 | Dismissive | "The Confusing World of Educational Accountability" | National Tax Journal 54(2):365-384, May 2001 DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2001.2.08 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292412159_The_Confusing_World_of_Educational_Accountability | |
138 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "There is increasing research suggesting that performance on cognitive tests is strongly related to labor market earnings, but this research has not been very careful in distinguishing among alternative performance measures (and their underlying standards of knowledge)." p.382 | Dismissive, Denigrating | "The Confusing World of Educational Accountability" | National Tax Journal 54(2):365-384, May 2001 DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2001.2.08 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292412159_The_Confusing_World_of_Educational_Accountability | |
139 | Eric A. Hanushek | Margaret E. Raymond | "However, the newness to education of accountability for outcomes means that the reality of current reporting and accountability systems will need refinement. In many cases we do not have adequate experience, theory, or empirical evidence yet to judge the actual implementation." p.383 | Dismissive | "The Confusing World of Educational Accountability" | National Tax Journal 54(2):365-384, May 2001 DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2001.2.08 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292412159_The_Confusing_World_of_Educational_Accountability | |
140 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “[E]vidence on the nature of human-capital spillovers is very poor, so that we do not even know whether contact between better and worse students raises the achievement of all students . . . .” p. 1211 | Dismissive | Does Competition among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? | The American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No. 5 (Dec., 2000) | http://faculty.smu.edu/millimet/classes/eco7321/papers/hoxby.p | ||
141 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “In some previous studies, insufficient attention to these matters has resulted in confused evidence about the effects of choice.” p. 1214 | Dismissive | Does Competition among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? | The American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No. 5 (Dec., 2000) | http://faculty.smu.edu/millimet/classes/eco7321/papers/hoxby.p | ||
142 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “[T]hough researchers often claim that the variation they use is not endogenous to student achievement, they rarely go on to explain where the variation does come from.” p. 1241 | Denigrating | The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation | Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000 | http://people.terry.uga.edu/mustard/courses/e4250/class-size-hoxby.pdf | ||
143 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “Few studies actually include all of the terms in equation (1), but most studies include some subset of them.” p. 1245 | Dismissive | The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation | Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000 | http://people.terry.uga.edu/mustard/courses/e4250/class-size-hoxby.pdf | ||
144 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “Since my data are actually panel data, I am able to employ a within-district method (described below) that is more powerful and less subject to bias than the cross-section method.” p. 1253 | Denigrating | The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation | Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000 | http://people.terry.uga.edu/mustard/courses/e4250/class-size-hoxby.pdf | ||
145 | Julian R. Betts | Jeff Grogger | "Despite recent theoretical work and proposals from educational reformers, there is little empirical work on the effects of higher grading standards." Abstract | Dismissive | THE IMPACT OF GRADING STANDARDS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, AND ENTRY-LEVEL EARNINGS | NBER Working Paper 7875, September 2000 | This research was supported by a grant from the American Educational Research Association which receives funds for its "AERA Grants Program" from the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Education Statistics (iJ. S. Department of Education) under NSF Grant #RED-9452861. | http://www.nber.org/papers/w7875 |
146 | Julian R. Betts | Jeff Grogger | "...it is surprising how little empirical work has been devoted to understanding how other aspects of the educational environment affect student behavior." p.1 | Dismissive | THE IMPACT OF GRADING STANDARDS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, AND ENTRY-LEVEL EARNINGS | NBER Working Paper 7875, September 2000 | This research was supported by a grant from the American Educational Research Association which receives funds for its "AERA Grants Program" from the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Education Statistics (iJ. S. Department of Education) under NSF Grant #RED-9452861. | http://www.nber.org/papers/w7875 |
147 | Julian R. Betts | Jeff Grogger | "Such incentives have been the focus of a small theoretical literature on educational standards. … See for instance Kang (1985), Becker and Rosen (1990), Costrell (1994), and Betts (1998)." p.1 | Dismissive | THE IMPACT OF GRADING STANDARDS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, AND ENTRY-LEVEL EARNINGS | NBER Working Paper 7875, September 2000 | This research was supported by a grant from the American Educational Research Association which receives funds for its "AERA Grants Program" from the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Education Statistics (iJ. S. Department of Education) under NSF Grant #RED-9452861. | http://www.nber.org/papers/w7875 |
148 | Julian R. Betts | Jeff Grogger | "The only other empirical study that we know of that addresses similar questions is Lillard and DeCicca (forthcoming)." p.3 | Dismissive | THE IMPACT OF GRADING STANDARDS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, AND ENTRY-LEVEL EARNINGS | NBER Working Paper 7875, September 2000 | This research was supported by a grant from the American Educational Research Association which receives funds for its "AERA Grants Program" from the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Education Statistics (iJ. S. Department of Education) under NSF Grant #RED-9452861. | http://www.nber.org/papers/w7875 |
149 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “Although some credible estimates of peer effects do exist, people often rely on evidence that is seriously biased by selection.” p. 2 | Denigrating | Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation | NBER Working Paper 7867, August 2000 | NBER funders | http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/oldfichiers051211/enseig/ecoineg/articl/Hoxby2000.pdf | |
150 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “The pedagogical literature is inconsistent: both the “one bad apple” and the “one shining light” models are popular.” p. 3 | Denigrating | Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation | NBER Working Paper 7867, August 2000 | NBER funders | http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/oldfichiers051211/enseig/ecoineg/articl/Hoxby2000.pdf | |
151 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “I introduce two empirical strategies that, even under these conditions, generate estimates of peer effects that are credibly free of selection bias.” p.3 | Denigrating | Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation | NBER Working Paper 7867, August 2000 | NBER funders | http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/oldfichiers051211/enseig/ecoineg/articl/Hoxby2000.pdf | |
152 | Hoxby, Caroline M. | “The empirical strategies in this paper are, I would argue, an improvement on many previous methods of identifying peer effects in schools.” p. 4 | 1stness | Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation | NBER Working Paper 7867, August 2000 | NBER funders | http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/oldfichiers051211/enseig/ecoineg/articl/Hoxby2000.pdf | |
153 | Eric A. Hanushek | with Kain & Rivkin | "Since the release of Equality of Educational Opportunity (the "Coleman Report") in 1966, the educational policy debate has often been reduced to a series of simplistic arguments and assertions about the role of schools in producing achievement. The character of this debate has itself been heavily influenced by confusing and conflicting research. While this research has suffered from inadequate data, imprecise definitions of the underlying problems and issues have been as important in obscuring the fundamental policy choices." p.1 | Denigrating | Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement | NBER Working Paper 6691, August 1998 | NBER funders | http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~jon/Econ230C/HanushekRivkin.pdf |
154 | Eric A. Hanushek | with Kain & Rivkin | "In comparison to studies that use only a small sample of students from each school, these data provide much more precise estimates of school average test scores and test score gains." p. 4 | Denigrating | Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement | NBER Working Paper 6691, August 1998 | NBER funders | http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~jon/Econ230C/HanushekRivkin.pdf |
155 | Eric A. Hanushek | with Kain & Rivkin | "While some past work has pursued portions of this, the limitations of previous data required the imposition of extremely strong assumptions to identify the various components of achievement gain." pp.6–7 | Denigrating | Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement | NBER Working Paper 6691, August 1998 | NBER funders | http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~jon/Econ230C/HanushekRivkin.pdf |
156 | Eric A. Hanushek | with Kain & Rivkin | "Many studies use the between school variation as a percentage of the total . . . to measure the contribution of school quality to achievement. This ratio is not, however, a clear indication of the possibilities for policy manipulation, . . ." pp. 8–9 | Denigrating | Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement | NBER Working Paper 6691, August 1998 | NBER funders | http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~jon/Econ230C/HanushekRivkin.pdf |
157 | Eric A. Hanushek | with Kain & Rivkin | "[S]tudies that use the between school variance component as an upper bound for the potential contribution of schooling may seriously underestimate the importance of schools." p. 11 | Denigrating | Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement | NBER Working Paper 6691, August 1998 | NBER funders | http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~jon/Econ230C/HanushekRivkin.pdf |
158 | Eric A. Hanushek | with Kain & Rivkin | "Like most educational studies, this estimation relies on self-reported school data, and these data are prone to significant reporting errors. Unlike most studies, however, we have access to longitudinal information on key data, and therefore we can adjust for inconsistencies that occur over time." p. 23 | Denigrating | Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement | NBER Working Paper 6691, August 1998 | NBER funders | http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~jon/Econ230C/HanushekRivkin.pdf |
159 | Eric A. Hanushek | with Kain & Rivkin | "Past research attempts to clarify the impact of schools on student performance have tended to worsen the situation by providing conflicting and unreliable conclusions." p. 31 | Denigrating | Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement | NBER Working Paper 6691, August 1998 | NBER funders | http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~jon/Econ230C/HanushekRivkin.pdf |
160 | Sean F. Reardon | "Virtually no evidence exists about the merits or flaws of MCTs [minimum competency tests]" | Dismissive | Eighth grade minimum competency testing and early high school dropout patterns | Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY, April 8, 1996 | |||
161 | Eric A. Hanushek | Erik A. Hanushek, D.W. Jorgenson (Eds.) | "The current push for reform is commonly traced to A Nation at Risk.... Since its publication, new reports have come so frequently that it is rare for a major institution not to have its own report and position on education reform. Yet it is startling how little any of the reports, or the refom movement itself, draw upon economic principles in formulating new plans." p.29 | Dismissive | Outcomes, Costs, and Incentives in Schools | Improving America’s schools: The role of incentives. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996 | National Academy of Sciences funders | |
162 | Eric A. Hanushek | Erik A. Hanushek, D.W. Jorgenson (Eds.) | "The most remarkable fact about the range of conceptually appealing performance incentives is that they remain virtually untested. Few examples of their use are available, and, as with the vast majority of new programs instituted in schools, attempts to introduce these various incentive systems are seldom evaluated in any systematic manner." p.43 | Dismissive | Outcomes, Costs, and Incentives in Schools | Improving America’s schools: The role of incentives. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996 | National Academy of Sciences funders | |
163 | Eric A. Hanushek | Erik A. Hanushek, D.W. Jorgenson (Eds.) | "This lack of knowledge about performance systems calls for a broad program of experimentation and evaluation.... Remarkably, evaluation is seldom an integral part of schools today. Any evaluation that is done is much more likely to occur before a program is introduced, rather than affter." p.44 | Dismissive, Denigrating | Outcomes, Costs, and Incentives in Schools | Improving America’s schools: The role of incentives. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996 | National Academy of Sciences funders | |
164 | Eric A. Hanushek | Erik A. Hanushek, D.W. Jorgenson (Eds.) | "While U.S. businesses have frequently lamented the quality of workers they receive from schools, they have never worked closely with schools to define the skills and abilities they seek in prospective workers." p.49 | Dismissive | Outcomes, Costs, and Incentives in Schools | Improving America’s schools: The role of incentives. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996 | National Academy of Sciences funders | |
165 | Eric A. Hanushek | Dongwook Kim | International comparative studies seldom yield conclusive findings. . . . Comparative growth analyses-relying on varying samples, differing analytical foci, and imperfect data-have led to some general findings along with many suggestive answers of questionable reliability. p. 33 | Denigrating | Schooling, Labor Force Inequality, and Economic Growth | NBER Working Paper 5399, December 1995 | NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w5399.pdf |
166 | Eric A. Hanushek | Dongwook Kim | Just as was the case within countries, little evidence suggests that simple resource policies are likely to improve student (and national) performance. p.34 | Dismissive | Schooling, Labor Force Inequality, and Economic Growth | NBER Working Paper 5399, December 1995 | NBER funders | http://www.nber.org/papers/w5399.pdf |
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Eric A. Hanushek | “Some academics are so eager to step out on policy issues that they don’t bother to find out what the reality is.” | as quoted by Rick Hess in “Professor Pallas’s Inept, Irresponsible Attack on DCPS” | Education Week on the Web, August 2, 2010, | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2010/08/professor_pallass_inept_irresponsible_attack_on_dcps.html | ||||
Eric A. Hanushek | Martin R. West (Ed.), Paul E. Peterson (Ed.) | “Presumably they realize that their selective reporting of evidence yields reports that are not credible. . . .” p.95 | School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy | Brookings, 2007 | ||||
Eric A. Hanushek | "Instead of weighing the full evidence before it in the neutral manner expected of an NRC committee, the panel selectively uses available evidence and then twists it into bizarre, one might say biased, conclusions." | "Grinding the anti-testing ax: More bias than evidence behind NRC panel’s conclusions" | Education Next, 12(2) | http://educationnext.org/grinding-the-antitesting-ax/ | ||||
Eric A. Hanushek | "The committee considers a review from 2008 of 14 studies, and 4 studies conducted after that review. ... The NRC committee apparently felt no need to look any further and ignored the fact that a majority of the 14 studies would not come close to meeting its standard of enabling a “causal conclusion.” | "Grinding the anti-testing ax: More bias than evidence behind NRC panel’s conclusions" | Education Next, 12(2) | http://educationnext.org/grinding-the-antitesting-ax/ | ||||
Eric A. Hanushek | "When it comes to gathering together the general literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the use of incentives in various contexts, the committee’s work is solidly constructed." | "Grinding the anti-testing ax: More bias than evidence behind NRC panel’s conclusions" | Education Next, 12(2) | http://educationnext.org/grinding-the-antitesting-ax/ | ||||
Eric A. Hanushek | "The desire for publicity apparently pushes some researchers to prepackage their own sound bites." | "RAND versus RAND: What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us? by Stephen P. Klein et al." | Education Next, 1(1) | http://educationnext.org/randversusrand/ | ||||
Eric A. Hanushek | "Journalists tend to judge a study’s quality—particularly a complicated statistical study—by its conclusions and by an undue emphasis on the study’s source rather than the strength of its analysis." | "RAND versus RAND: What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us? by Stephen P. Klein et al." | Education Next, 1(1) | http://educationnext.org/randversusrand/ | ||||
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Colby Art Collins Comcast NBCUniversal Cornerstone Macro The Crown Family Alan and Lauren Dachs Eberstadt Kuffner Fund Elevate Credit, Inc. The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein FutureWei Technologies, Inc. Benjamin D. Harburg Phil Harvey William A. Haseltine I Squared Capital Insurance Information Institute Intel Corporation Embassy of Japan Jefferies, LLC Tom Kaplan, Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group Cash, Contracts, and In-Kind Contributions Sheryl and Chip Kaye Samer Khoury Tawfic Khoury Amy Liu John G. Macfarlane III John Manley Medtronic, Inc. Cathy E. Minehan The Leo Model Foundation Ambrose Monell Foundation Mario M. Morino Nihon Keizai Shimbun-sya (NIKKEI) Noble Energy Nomura Foundation Norges Bank Investment Management Palantir Technologies The Peter G. Peterson Foundation Point72 Asset Management John G. Popp Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law Marian Puig Thomas C. Ramey and Perrin Ireland Joseph L. Rice III Stephen Robert James D. Robinson III Rockefeller Brothers Fund Christopher Rokos Victoria and Roger Sant Robert B. Sheh Dr. Fay L. Shutzer and William A. Shutzer Government of Switzerland Tellurian, Inc. Lynn Thoman and the Leon Lowenstein Foundation UBS AG UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research Department for International Development, United Kingdom United Technologies Corporation University of Chicago University of Toronto The Urban Institute Visa Inc. Alex C. Walker Foundation Marcus Wallenberg, Foundation Asset Management (FAM) Claude Wasserstein Katie Henderson, The Water Research Foundation Beatrice W. and Anthony Welters The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Stephen M. Wolf Daniel H. Yergin and Angela Stent D.B. Zwirn Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous (2) Aberdeen Standard Investment ACTwireless Actagon AB Airlines for America John R. Allen Eileen A. Aptman Aramco Services Company†† Arnhold Foundation Central Intelligence Agency Charter Communications, Inc. Citi The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City H. Rodgin Cohen The Commonwealth Fund Susan Crown andWilliam C. Kunkler III Cummins Inc. DLI North America (Dai-ichi Life Group) European Recovery Program (ERP), German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy Evercore Partners Embassy of France Barbara H. Franklin Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, Inc. Garfield Foundation Jeff Gore Teresa Heinz Kerry Hitachi, Ltd. Honda North America, Inc. Indra Inter-American Development Bank The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) The Israel Institute George M. James Japan Air Self Defense Force Japan Economic Foundation The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership Japan International Cooperation Agency James A. Johnson George Kellner Jeffrey D. Lapin Sara Grootwassink Lewis Linden Trust for Conservation Lockheed Martin Corporation Marine Corps University Marubeni America Corporation The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. Municipality of The Hague Laxman Narasimhan NCTA - The Internet and Television Association Lisa O’Kelly Permanent Secretariat of the Community of Democracies Raytheon Company Marcia Riklis San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation Katherine Stahl in Honor of Pietro Nivola Krishen Sud Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Temasek Holdings United Airlines, Inc. U.S. Department of the Air Force U.S. Department of the Army U.S. Department of the Navy John Usdan Verizon Communications Washington University in St. Louis The World Bank $10,000–$24,999 Anonymous (2) Aflac Yavuz Ahiska Astra Capital Management Waël O. Bayazid Kelvin Beachum, Jr. Linda and Jim Beers Franklin M. Berger David K. Berler The Boeing Company Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Anders Brag The Brodsky Family Foundation California HealthCare Foundation Morris Clarke Corning Incorporated Foundation The Council for the United States and Italy Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr. The Curtis Family Foundation Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP Porter Dawson Laura A. DeFelice Deloitte LLP Emsi R.S. Evans Foundation Philip and Diana Faillace Patricia Farman-Farmaian Roger C. Faxon Forum for the Future of Higher Education Mitzi and Cyrus Freidheim David Friend John L. Furth Gardner Grout Foundation Helene Gayle GEICO General Motors Foundation Marilyn and Michael Glosserman Rob Granieri Patrick W. and Sheila Proby Gross Agnes Gund Hellman Foundation Higher Heights ITOCHU International Inc. Joel and Ricki Kanter Cassandra Kelly Brenda R. Kiessling Jackie and Andrew Klaber Lee Klingenstein Robert and Arlene Kogod Korea International Trade Association Ned Lamont Toby Devan Lewis Lumos Foundation USA Bertil P. Lundqvist Marketplace Lending Association John P. McCormick Arjay Miller* Mary Miller Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. Mona Foundation Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Northern Trust NTT Corp. Gordon and Dailey Pattee Mary Carr Patton Dina and George Perry Marc Peters The Honorable Edward A. and Diane L. Powell Purdue Pharma L.P. Israel Roizman Charles Rossotti Jon Rotenstreich Frederic and Susan Rubinstein Ricardo and Leslie Salmon Jonathan Schaffzin Michael L. Schler Shimizu Corporation Stanley S. Shuman Emily and Robert E. Smith Sojitz Corporation of America Esta Eiger Stecher Andrew P. Steffan Sumitomo Corporation of Americas The Nelson S. Talbott Foundation Larry D. Thompson Toshiba America, Inc. Ranvir Trehan Universidad EAFIT, Colombia VOX Global Seymour and Kathleen Weingarten Joan and Harry Weintrob | ||||||||
(3) [as of January, 2019] Some NBER funders [https://www.nber.org/CorporateSupporters2018.pdf] Contributing $20,000 - $25,000: AIG; Bank for International Settlements; Brevan Howard; Capital Group Companies; ExxonMobil; Fidelity Management & Research; General Motors Foundation; Goldman Sachs; Google, Inc.; Johnson & Johnson; JP Morgan Chase Institute; Koret Foundation; Pfizer, Inc.; Vanguard; Anonymous (2). Contributing $10,000 - $19,999: Fuller & Thaler Asset Management; Insurance Information Institute. Contributing $5,000 - $9,999: Central Bank Research Associates; Norges Bank Investment Management. Contributing Less Than $5,000: Allen Sinai; Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System; Federal Reserve District Banks (12); Francis Schott. Contributions to Support the NBER Summer Institute: Contributing $50,000 to $75,000: Mohamed El-Erian. Contributing $10,000 to $19,999: Bank of England; Bank of France; Bank of Germany; Bank of Italy; Bank of Japan; Bank of Netherlands; Monetary Authority of Singapore; Reserve Bank of India. Contributions to Support the NBER Digitization Initiative: Contributing $25,000 - $50,000: Amazon; Tides Foundation. | ||||||||
(4) [as of January, 2019] See https://www.the74million.org/supporters/ "Partners" include: Triad Foundation, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Park Avenue Charitable Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, California Community Foundation, Doris & Donald Fisher Fund, Gen Next Foundation, Karsh Family Foundation, Jon Sackler, William E. Simon Foundation, Charles Strauch, Walton Family Foundation. | ||||||||
(5) Ascendium Education Group, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Funders for Adolescent Science Translation, The Joyce Foundation, The Kern Family Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Pritzker Children’s Initiative, The Spencer Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, The Walton Family Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, W.T. Grant Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, EGF Accelerator, American Institutes for Research, American Federation of Teachers, The Aspen Education & Society Program, National Education Association |