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Do Profits Incentivize Academic Performance? Estimating the Relationship Between Profit Status and Student Test Scores in Charter Schools
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Roughly one-quarter of all charter school students in the U.S. attend a school managed by a for-profit management organization. Limitations in the scope of previous research prevent researchers from understanding whether ...
The Impact of Teacher Absenteeism on Student Achievement: A Study on U.S. Public Schools, Using Results of the 2011-2012 Civil Rights Data Collection
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The present work intends to deepen our understanding of teacher absenteeism and student achievement. The hypothesis is that teacher absenteeism is a strong predictor of student test scores, and that teacher absenteeism has ...
Does private school competition improve country-level student achievement? A cross-country analysis using PISA 2012.
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This paper investigates the relationship between private competition and student achievement and whether countries with higher shares of privately-managed schools have better standardized test scores. It uses the cross-country ...
The Relationship between Access to Toilets and School Enrollment in Pakistan
(Georgetown University, 2017)
The Pakistani public-school system is struggling and has fallen substantially behind other developing countries in enrollment rates. The Government of Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province, initiated a program to improve ...
Is the Title I Formula Broken? How Bad Is It? A Study of the Relationship Between School District Federal Title I Dollar Allocations and District Poverty, Race, and Segregation
(Georgetown University, 2023)
“Title I” refers to the nation’s largest federal budgetary package to support economically-disadvantaged students. Research around it has been limited, though the consensus across decades suggests that reassessment of its ...
Who Scores Best: An Analysis of the Effect that Title 1 School Funding Program Has on Test Scores of California Migrant Students
(Georgetown University, 2023)
This paper is an examination into the policies utilized by Federal and California state officials to support low-income individuals and vulnerable populations. I examine the efficacy of these various programs and how they ...