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 …

examine the Focus School reforms in the state of Kentucky. The reforms in this state are uniquely interesting for several … reasons. One is that the state developed unusually explicit guidance for Focus Schools centered on a comprehensive school …-performing subgroups into an umbrella group. This design feature may have catalyzed broader whole-school reforms and attenuated the …

impacts on various measures of school staffing, student composition, or academic achievement. We find some evidence that the … Focus designation led to small, short-run reductions in the within-school math achievement gap - but that these reductions … reauthorization of NCLB, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), to meaningfully improve student and school outcomes …

entering high school from very poor social-economic backgrounds. The program includes proactive mentoring to each student … housing projects before and after the introduction of the program, high school graduation and post secondary enrollment rates …

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 …

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 …

intergenerational wealth effects. Using panel data from school zones within a large U.S. school district, we find that higher local … house prices lead to improvements in local school quality, thereby increasing child human capital and future incomes. We … endogenous school quality. Housing market shocks in the model generate large intra- and intergenerational wealth effects, with …