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Manuel Alcaino; Pablo Argote – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2024
Growing evidence warns about the detrimental effects of the stress induced by natural disasters on learning outcomes. Yet less is known about how political leadership could mitigate the adverse exposure to these events. Exploiting a natural experiment--the massive 2010 earthquake in Chile--as an exogenous shock and using fine-grained student data,…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Achievement Gains, Political Influences, Environmental Influences
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Huddleston, Andrew P. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
The author uses Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital, and habitus to analyze how students, parents, teachers, and administrators are responding to Georgia's test-based grade retention policy in reading at one Georgia elementary school. In this multiple case study, the author interviewed, observed, and collected documents regarding ten fifth…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, State Policy, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Teachers