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Murnane, Richard J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
For a variety of reasons described in the paper, improving the performance of urban school districts is more difficult today than it was several decades ago. Yet economic and social changes make performance improvement especially important today. Two quite different bodies of research provide ideas for improving the performance of urban school…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Urban Youth, Educational Improvement
Papay, John P.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
The growing prominence of high-stakes exit examinations has made questions about their effects on student outcomes increasingly important. We take advantage of a natural experiment to evaluate the causal effects of failing a high-stakes test on high school completion for the cohort scheduled to graduate from Massachusetts high schools in 2006.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Low Income, Exit Examinations, Grade 8
Miller, Raegen T.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
Rates of employee absences and the effects of absences on productivity are topics of conversation in many organizations in many countries. One reason is that high rates of employee absence may signal weak management and poor labor-management relations. A second reason is that reducing rates of employee absence may be an effective way to improve…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Teacher Attendance, Employee Absenteeism