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The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...
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students responded to the release of the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard in September 2015. We find that data … increase in score sends. The impact is driven almost entirely by well-resourced high schools and students. We find little … evidence that the count or composition of enrolled students changed as a result of the Scorecard information shock with the …
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We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college …-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies … markedly different voting rates. Next, after controlling for students' college application portfolios and pre-college voting …
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portfolio and compare students with similar portfolios and levels of interest in HBCUs and non-HBCUs who ultimately make … students initially enrolling in HBCUs are 14.6 percentage points more likely to earn a BA degree and have 5 percent higher … household income around age 30 than those who do not enroll in an HBCU. Initially enrolling in an HBCU also leads to $12 …
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western rural China, the empirical study found that school expenditures on students and teachers account for only 12% of total … expenditures, while expenditures on school administration is as high as 72%. Expenditures on students and teachers (software) are …
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