A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before … year for students in the program schools. Supplementary event study and synthetic control analyses to detect year …

subsidy worth thousands of dollars annually to students from families with above-median incomes. White students receive larger … subsidies relative to Black students and Hispanic students with similar family incomes, and this gap in subsidies is associated … students' advantage in these outcomes relative to Black students and Hispanic students …

pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We … fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a suite of such programs targeted to underrepresented high school students at … modality (on-site or online). Students offered seats in the STEM summer programs are more likely to enroll in, persist through …

standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had … between NAEP scores and students' later life outcomes by year and state of birth. We find that a standard deviation … average K-12 student (or $19,400), totaling $900 billion for the 48 million students enrolled in public schools during the …