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

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 …

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 …

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with … measured by the National Assessment of Educational progress shows that accountability systems introduced during the 1990s had a … surrounding stronger accountability has been a concern about unintended consequences related to such things as higher exclusion …

the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-hundred New York City public schools designed …

Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …

individual characteristics and bounding exercises for selection on unobservables. Smaller class sizes and a school culture where … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …