"The racial achievement gap in education is an important social problem to which decades of research have yielded no scalable solutions. Recent evidence from 'No Excuses' charter schools - which demonstrates that some combination of school inputs can educate the poorest minority children -...

"The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of...