informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …

Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment … struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some students may face initial challenges, by … disadvantages, these programs may enable students to bridge the gap and catch up to their peers. In this study, we examine the …

students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at a relatively broad range of outcomes, including college and graduate …

socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across …, increasing the achievement levels of students' peers improves students' math and ELA test scores but harms their ELA course … grades. Test score benefits accrue primarily to students from higher-income families, though students with lower family …

This paper presents the first evidence of how students make career technical education (CTE) course-taking decisions …

, grades, and persistence. I estimate that two thirds of the plan's 9.1 point impact on top-decile students' probability of … attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more … likely to come from low- income high schools, and academically outperform the students that they displace. These effects …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before … year for students in the program schools. Supplementary event study and synthetic control analyses to detect year …