Targeted remedial education for under-performing teenagers
Subtitle: Costs and benefits
By: Victor Lavy, Analia Schlosser.
Contributors: Schlosser, Analia, 1974-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10575; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10575.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Remedial teaching -- Israel.; High school teaching -- Israel.; Teenagers -- Education -- Israel.
Description: "There is renewed interest in ways to enhance secondary education, especially among disadvantaged students.  This study evaluates the short-term effects of a remedial-education program that provided additional instruction to under-performing high-school students in Israel.  The program targeted 10th twelfth graders who needed additional help to pass the matriculation exams.  Using a comparison group of schools that enrolled in the program later and implementing a differences-in-differences estimation strategy, we found that the program raised the school mean matriculation rate by 3.3 percentage points.  This gain reflects mainly an effect on targeted participants and the absence of externalities on their untreated peers.  The program was found to be less cost-effective than two alternative interventions based on incentives for teachers and students"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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