Growing concerns over the achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or … fire) bad ones. The leading method for assessing teacher quality is "value added" modeling (VAM), which decomposes students … strong assumptions about the nature of the educational production function and the assignment of students to classrooms. In …

distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative admissions policies. We … students. The first--highly ranked students at schools which previously sent few students to the flagship university …--gain access due to the policy; the second--students outside the top tier at traditional "feeder" high schools--tend to lose access …

indicate strong selectivity of test-takers in "ACT states," where most college-bound students take the ACT, and much less …

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 …