, bringing average achievement in the previously lowest performing schools close to the district average. When ACE stipends are …Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD …-adjusted payments that provided large compensating differentials to attract and retain effective teachers in its lowest achievement …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, but they are also placed in classes that are more segregated by race, socio-economic status, and prior achievement …

the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four comparison schools by matching based on achievement and also on …The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was … year for students in the program schools. Supplementary event study and synthetic control analyses to detect year …

more than 800 schools across 112 villages and verify that they are valid and unbiased. With the SVA measures, we then …-income countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …

Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve … tracking within schools for grades 4 through 8 over the years 2011-2019. We find substantial tracking; tracking within schools … overwhelms any sorting by ability that takes place across schools. The most important determinant of tracking is heterogeneity in …

socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across … schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a …, increasing the achievement levels of students' peers improves students' math and ELA test scores but harms their ELA course …

features of public pre-K and regular kindergarten. We provide the first estimates of the impact of Michigan's TK program on 3rd …

teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale …, that rule out impacts as small as 0.015 standard deviation for achievement and 1 percentage point for high school …