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Krafft, Caroline; Branson, Zea; Flak, Taylor – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
The Middle East and North Africa region has the world's lowest returns to education. This paper examines what the value of a degree is using nationally representative labour market surveys from Egypt (2012), Jordan (2010) and Tunisia (2014). Specifically, the authors estimate Mincer models for levels and years of schooling. They find that returns…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Educational Attainment, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
Herbert, Marion – District Administration, 2011
On June 8, News Corp., a media company owned by Rupert Murdoch, snatched two leading school district administrators to head its new education division. Peter Gorman, former superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Schools, is the unit's new senior vice president, and Kristen Kane, the former chief operating officer of the New York City…
Descriptors: Corporations, School Districts, Local Government, Private Sector
National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
In "Holding Accountability to Account: How Scholarship and Experience in Other Fields Inform Exploration of Performance Incentives in Education"--a paper presented at the National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference in February--Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, argues educational…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Incentives, Rewards, Accountability