Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter … sources of charter effect heterogeneity, we show that urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of urban public … schools in other settings do not. Using the largest available sample of lotteried applicants to charter schools, we explore …

early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are …

The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are … traditional reading and math skills. No Excuses charter schools are sometimes said to focus on relatively motivated high achievers … emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that …

determine whether increased shared computer access at schools affects digital skills and academic achievement. Results suggest …This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data … are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs …

program, using data collected after 15 months of implementation in 319 primary schools in rural Peru. The results indicate … that the program increased the ratio of computers per student from 0.12 to 1.18 in treatment schools. This expansion in …

: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the …