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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 STEM Educational Attainment and Utility Patent Conferrals: A State-Level Analysis
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The utility patent, as a legal record of invention, is widely believed to be a close proxy for innovation among firms, industries, and economies as a whole. One of the critical drivers of patenting – and ultimately, ...
A SIMULATED EVALUATION OF THE TENNESSEE PROMISE USING ELS:2002: HOW DOES FINANCIAL AID EFFECT PERSISTENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE BY FAMILY INCOME
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This study examines the effect of financial aid and family income on a students’ first-to-second year persistence in community college. Data for this study are drawn from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: ...
THE ROLE OF SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIO-EMOTIONAL SKILLS
(Georgetown University, 2016)
American public schools have long been the key policy mechanism for enhancing America’s human resources and for giving students the skills they need to be successful, contributing citizens in the complex, 21st century ...
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 ...
Aristotle, Dewey, Gadamer, and the Citizen Action Project: Educating the Ethical Citizen
(Georgetown University, 2016)
ARISTOTLE, DEWEY, GADAMER, AND THE CITIZEN ACTION PROJECT: EDUCATING THE ETHICAL CITIZEN
The Relationship between Publicly Funded Preschool and Fourth-Grade Math Test Scores: A State-Level Analysis
(Georgetown University, 2014)
In recognition of the potential long-term benefits of early education programs, significant public investments have been made in preschool programs such as Head Start, state-funded pre-kindergarten, and special education ...
The Relationship between Income and Education and Support for Democracy in Six Arab Countries
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Using public opinion survey data from Arab Barometer Project Wave I, this study investigates the relationship income and education and support for democracy in six Arab countries: Yemen, Morocco, Palestine, Algeria, Lebanon, ...
Effects of Parental Involvement on the Academic Performance of Children of Immigrants
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Using 1992, 1995, and 2002 individual-level data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, I estimate the effects of parental involvement on children of immigrants' academic performance. I identify seven parental ...
The Relationship Between Problems in Student-Teacher Interaction and Chronic Absenteeism: An Examination of American Indian Kindergarteners in Tulsa Public Schools
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Compared to all other racial and ethnic groups in the nation’s public school system, American Indians are the most likely to be chronically absent, defined as missing three or more weeks of school during an academic year. ...