We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train … teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0 …, probably due to a reduced emphasis on reading after the program. We find that the program also encourages students to read more …

This paper presents the results from a randomized controlled trial of Chapter One, an early elementary reading tutoring … students were randomly assigned to receive supplementary tutoring during the 2021-22 school year (N=818). The study occurred in … over two times more likely to reach the program's target reading level by the end of kindergarten (70% vs. 32%). The …

schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a … different school and, separately, of shifts in peer characteristics. We rule out all but substantively small effects of … transitioning to a different school as a result of reassignment on test scores, course grades and chronic absenteeism. In contrast …

We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani …

. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve …

Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd … the measurement of the private premium and how we design and evaluate policies that reallocate children across schools …

We study the effects of private school competition on public school students' test scores in the wake of Florida … to a more competitive private school landscape saw greater improvements in their test scores after the introduction of … private school options open to students. We find that greater degrees of competition are associated with greater improvements …