. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

,000 students in 86 schools across 9 states. Unlike several of the other large for-profit companies that operate virtual charters … low-income, underrepresented minorities in urban areas, the benefits of attending an NHA charter network are concentrated … among non-poor students attending charter schools outside urban areas. Using data from a survey of school administrators in …

special-need students, groups that charter critics have argued are typically under-served. The results show overall gains of 0 ….35 standard deviations in math and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn. LEP students, special … education students, and those with low baseline scores benefit more from time spent at KIPP than do other students, with reading …

special-need students, groups that charter critics have argued are typically under-served. The results show overall gains of 0 ….35 standard deviations in math and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn. LEP students, special … education students, and those with low baseline scores benefit more from time spent at KIPP than do other students, with reading …

schools enroll a growing share of students. We also evaluate an alternative to the charter model, Boston's pilot schools …

High-achieving, low-income students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than upper-income students with … intervention did not increase aid: rather, students were guaranteed before application the same grant aid that they would qualify … students' college decisions …

experimentally test the effects of these two models on the schooling decisions of low-income students. An unconditional free tuition … contingent on proof of need has a much smaller effect on application and none on enrollment. The results suggest students place a …

to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …

Forty years ago, 96% of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84 … in the age of legal school entry intensify socioeconomic differences in educational attainment, since lower-income … children are at greater risk of dropping out of school when they reach the legal age of school exit …