-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. A series of robustness and placebo tests …

. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job … differentiating signal from noise in real-world teacher effect estimates, this paper serves as a cautionary tale for their use in …

eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are … effects in elementary school close the racial achievement gap in both subjects. We conclude by presenting four pieces of …

public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior … Lynn, a KIPP charter school that is mostly Hispanic and has a high concentration of limited English proficiency (LEP) and …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … students assigned to high-VA teachers in primary school are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, and are less …

of higher grading standards. In this paper we use data from the High School and Beyond survey to estimate the effects of …, however, and indeed have negative effects on high school graduation among blacks and Hispanics. We suggest a relative …

their education may not be identical, this method leads to an over- or under-estimation of the return to education of a …