Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from …

This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … black and white students in North and South Carolina that existed in the first half of the 20th century, and the subsequent …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …

with between-cohort comparisons of students at schools with small numbers of gifted children per cohort, to evaluate the …. Since most schools have only a handful of gifted students per cohort, the majority of seats are filled by high achievers …-gifted participants, concentrated among black and Hispanic students, who gain 0.5 standard deviation units in fourth grade reading and …

Using data from a group incentive program that provides cash bonuses to teachers whose students perform well on … of students within a grade, school and subject, providing substantial variation in group size. We use the share of … students in a grade-subject enrolled in a teacher's classes as a proxy for incentive strength since, as the teacher share …

combination of state summative and higher frequency benchmark assessments for middle school students in Michigan. Comparing pre … disadvantaged students, as well as students in districts that were at least partially remote in 2021-22. Benchmark assessment …

The success of many students with disabilities (SWDs) depends on access to high-quality general education teachers. Yet … students with and without disabilities. We create two VAM measures: one focusing on teachers' effectiveness in improving … identifying which teachers have a history of effectiveness with SWDs and could play a role in ensuring that students are being …

economically disadvantaged students saw larger decreases in classifications. While rates returned to trend in 2021-22, there was … little "catch up" beyond that to make up for these delays, suggesting that as of that year many students had not yet gained …