School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation … parents, 31% for the 2013 cohort chose this option. Our hypothesis is that the declining availability of 'matched jobs' that … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …

population of households whose children attend public schools in Florida. Girls growing up in a boy-biased family score 3 … those of their children, supporting the hypothesis that preferences transmitted through the family impact children behavior …

experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …

-biological parents. Finally, we find a positive and significant interaction effect between IQ and father income, which suggests a …In this paper we merge three datasets - individual income data, patenting data, and IQ data - to analyze the … determinants of an individual's probability of inventing. We find that: (i) parental income matters even after controlling for …

for identifiable subgroups of students. Children of parents whose choices revealed a strong preference for academic … children of parents who forfeit the most in terms of utility gains from proximity and racial match to choose a school with … quality experienced significant gains in test scores as a result of attending their chosen school, while children whose …

limited effectiveness, the introduction of a new modality with enhanced mentor training significantly improves children …

Research documents that parental beliefs influence early investments in children, which, in turn, determine early human … capital and, eventually, other skills children acquire in later stages of the lifecycle, such as literacy. Our paper reports … teaches the science of early language development, models verbal interaction behaviors with children, and provides objective …

-factor model is estimated using panel data, and the results indicate that when such factors are taken account of, family income is … estimated to have no significant influence on health and cognitive development, but parents' education a strong positive …