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 …

Many U.S. students arrive on college campus lacking the skills expected for college-level work. As state leaders seek … course requirements. Tennessee has taken a novel approach by allowing students to complete their remediation requirements in … the first year of college and allowed students to earn a modest 4.5 additional college credits by their second year. We …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

which school principals were provided with estimates of the performance of individual teachers in raising their students …

estimate a mixed-logit discrete choice demand model for schools. We find that parents value proximity highly and the preference … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable … heterogeneity in preferences even after controlling for income, academic achievement and race, with strong negative correlations …

. Yet, no national dataset measures both parental income and achievement in a consistent way for individual students over …Over the past 30 years, rising income inequality and income-based residential segregation have threatened to widen … income-based achievement gaps, even as school accountability and school finance reform efforts have attempted to narrow them …