School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …

strongest positive effects associate with the ultimate sanction: leadership and management changes associated with school …

immigrant high school dropouts. One data source -- the CPS -- is plagued by non-response and allocation bias from the hot …

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools … integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school … Texas students, disentangles racial composition effects from other aspects of school quality and from differences in student …

there is a substantial correlation between test scores and high school performance, we find that both post-secondary school … preferences and ultimate opportunities are related as much to performance in high school as to test scores themselves. Although … constraint on the college opportunities of high school graduates …

a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs" and school resources are closely related to school … income and education of parents, have strong effects on student performance. The findings also" indicate that more school … resources - especially smaller class sizes but probably also higher" teacher salaries and greater school length - enhance …

feedback effect black school enrollment increased in states that had previously experienced high rates of black out …

is the New York City public school district, which uses criteria like test scores and interviews to generate applicant … applicants near cutoffs regardless of lottery risk. These methods are applied to evaluate New York City's school progress … school, including some of the highest performing in the district, generates no measurable effects. Evaluation methods that …