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To Leave or Not to Leave? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Impact of Failing High School Exit Exam
No full textThe high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression Discontinuity design. It shows that students who barely fail the exam are more likely to exit than those who barely pass despite being offered retest opportunities. The discontinuity amounts to a large proportion of the dropout probability of barely-failers, particularly for minority and low-income students, suggesting that the potential benefit of raising educational standards might come at the cost of increasing inequalities in the educational system.high school exit exam, student dropout, regression discontinuity
To Leave or Not to Leave? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Impact of Failing the High School Exit Exam
No full textThe high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression Discontinuity design. It shows that students who barely fail the exam are more likely to exit than those who barely pass despite being offered retest opportunities. The discontinuity amounts to a large proportion of the dropout probability of barely-failers, particularly for minority and low-income students, suggesting that the potential benefit of raising educational standards might come at the cost of increasing inequalities in the educational system.high school exit exam, student dropout, regression discontinuity
David Canaan: The Failing Heart
No full textErnest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley is more than just a flawed paean to the virtues of the rural family, as suggested by Claude Bissell in his introduction to the novel, and it is more than simply another example of the victim syndrome in Canadian literature, as Margaret Atwood claims in Survival. It is a far subtler achievement: the representation of a potentially great character, David Canaan, who fails to achieve his potential for the most human of reasons – willful self-love. This carefully structured study of human isolation undercuts the failure of David's life as a writer in that Buckler's artistic exploration of David's character actually succeeds where David does not, while showing, with precision and clarity, why David fails
Otis Brothers' Never-Failing Corn Cure!
No full textTrade card advertising Otis Brothers' Never-Failing Corn Cure, a remedy prepared by the Otis Brothers, Binghamton, N.Y., and marketed by David M. Stiger & Co., New York. This card is printed on ordinary paper stock
The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts
No full textThe 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. With these exit examinations, states divide a continuous performance measure into dichotomous categories, so students with essentially identical performance may have different outcomes. We find that, for low-income urban students on the margin of passing, failing the 10th grade mathematics examination reduces the probability of on-time graduation by eight percentage points. The large majority (89%) of students who fail the 10th grade mathematics examination retake it. However, although we find that low-income urban students are just as likely to retake the test as apparently equally skilled suburban students, they are much less likely to pass this retest. Furthermore, failing the 8th grade mathematics examination reduces by three percentage points the probability that low-income urban students stay in school through 10th grade. We find no effects for suburban students or wealthier urban students.
A Note on Douglas Barbour's "David Canaan: The Failing Heart" (SCL, Winter 1976)
No full textDouglas Barbour's argument in "David Canaan: The Failing Heart," his recent analysis of Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley (SCL 1.1), receives support from several remarks that Ernest Buckler once made about the novel in a letter to Dudley H. Cloud of the Atlantic Monthly Press in 1951. This letter provides an illuminating glimpse of a writer's intentions and adds to a critical argument that opens the way to a new understanding of what Barbour refers to as "one of the best novels of the post-war period.
S100A1 genetically targeted therapy reverses dysfunction of human failing cardiomyocytes
No full textThis study investigated the hypothesis whether S100A1 gene therapy can improve pathological key features in human failing ventricular cardiomyocytes (HFCMs)
FAILING EUROPE? THE PRESENT REALITY.
No full textThe article is concerned with the performance of the European security strategy and differentiated views of individual areas of assessment. The table contains comparison of unfair assessment by
Brussels and the real situation. In conclusion, the author claims that the contents clearly indicate that the European Union is failing in the area of security
Failing forward in Economic and Monetary Union: explaining weak Eurozone financial support mechanisms
No full textpeer reviewedIn this article, we apply the ‘failing forward’ approach to analyse the negotiations on and design of reforms to Eurozone economic governance to tackle the Covid-19-related crisis of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This crisis highlights both spill-overs from major asymmetries in EMU and weaknesses in the incomplete economic governance of the Eurozone. We focus on the financial support mechanisms agreed upon after intergovernmental negotiations in major crisis situations. These reforms represent compromise solutions that reflect well-entrenched disagreements among member states. We explain why more far-reaching reforms to Eurozone economic governance – notably, the adoption of mutualized Euro-denominated debt and the generalized use of grants over loans – have not been adopted, despite the severity of the Covid-19-related crisis. These reforms – notably the Next Generation European Union (NGEU) financial package adopted in July 2020 – fail to address and, rather, contribute to existing asymmetries, thus sowing the seeds of future crises
KURTZ GIVES FAILING GRADE
No full textGeorgia’s indigent defense system is failing to adequately protect the rights of the poor, according to the commission appointed to investigate the issue. Associate Dean Paul Kurtz served as the reporter for the commission and presented the report to the Georgia Supreme Court. To read the complete story, see the Los Angeles Times. In the Archives Section, enter the article title “Georgia Fails Its Poor Defendants, Report Says. Henry Weinstein is the author and the article was published on 12/13/02
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