the impact of flip charts on the relative performance of students in flip chart and other subjects across schools with and …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …

instructional expenditure categories influence graduation and first-year persistence rates of undergraduate students … marginal effects are higher for students at institutions with lower entrance test scores and higher Pell Grant expenditures per …

skills. Students randomly assigned to computer-aided instruction score 0.17 of a standard deviation higher on pre …-algebra/algebra tests than students randomly assigned to traditional instruction. We hypothesize that the effectiveness arises from … increased individualized instruction as the effects appear larger for students in larger classes and in classes with high …

to test whether textbook consumers are forward-looking. The data strongly support the view that students are forward … students buy their textbooks, they correctly take into account the probability that they will not be able to resell their books … suggest that students are sufficiently forward-looking that publishers could not raise revenues by accelerating current …

foreign students, little is known about their impact on the educational process. Nevertheless, undergraduates frequently … complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching …

their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … is a public good where congestion effects are potentially important. Because the optimal class size is larger for behaved-students … better students. This selection may help explain why Catholic schools out-perform public schools even though expulsion rates …

This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers … were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86 school year: small classes (13-17 students …), regular-size classes (22-25 students) teacher's aide. According to the original design, students were to remain in their …

retention in the third-grade substantially improves the English skills of these students, reducing the time to proficiency by … larger for foreign born students, students with higher latent human capital in third grade as proxied by their math scores …, students whose first language is Spanish, and students in lower-poverty elementary schools …