special-need students, groups that charter critics have argued are typically under-served. The results show overall gains of 0 ….35 standard deviations in math and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn. LEP students, special … education students, and those with low baseline scores benefit more from time spent at KIPP than do other students, with reading …

Nearly 60 percent of college students today are women. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative cohort of … eighth grade students in 1988, I examine two potential explanations for the differential attendance rates of men and women …

have relied more on remedial programs such as summer school and grade retention to help low-achieving students meet minimum … achievement for third grade students and has little effect on math achievement for sixth grade students …