We study the impact of the end of race-based busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools ("CMS") on academic achievement …, educational attainment, and young adult crime. In 2001, CMS was prohibited from using race in assigning students to schools … they are assigned to schools with more minority students. We also find decreases in high school graduation and four …

% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates …

schools, increasing turnover for teachers with low performance estimates and producing small test score improvements. (JEL D83 …

, while there may be no single factor that can predict success in teaching, using a broad set of measures can help schools …

In November of 2007, the New York City Department of Education assigned elementary and middle schools a letter grade (A … school level aggregate data. Although schools had only a few months to respond to the release of accountability grades, we … evaluations of educational quality improved for schools receiving low accountability grades. However, changes in survey response …