High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some … states offer alternative, non-tested pathways to graduation for students who have failed their exit exams. This study …

students were randomly assigned to receive supplementary tutoring during the 2021-22 school year (N=818). The study occurred in … a large Southeastern district serving predominantly Black and Hispanic students. Students assigned to the program were …

students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs … that ACT science scores improved by 0.2 points (or roughly 0.04 standard deviations) as a result of the MMC. Students who … impact on high school graduation for students who entered high school with the weakest academic preparation, but other …

students. Over the years, tracking has received harsh criticism. In fact, policymakers have launched initiatives to discourage … tracking across the nation, and started recommending districts place students with different ability levels in the same … classrooms (Wheelock 1992). Opponents argue that tracking not only fails to benefit students, but in racially integrated schools …

.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. We find growing gaps between children from high- and low-income … education of the daughters of high-income parents. Sex differences in educational attainment, which were small or nonexistent … for low-income cohorts born around 1980 relative to cohorts born in the early 1960s, but by 18 percentage points for …