Educational Longitudinal Survey to show that" black children who attended Head Start go on to attend schools of worse quality …' than other black" children, in the sense that they attend schools in which most children have worse test scores. We" do not … see any similar pattern among white children, indicating that on average children attend schools similar to those attended …

discontinuity design. The intervention consisted of upgrading existing three-classroom schools to six-classroom schools to … by 0.29 standard deviations. Students in treatment schools progress further through the grades, compared to students in … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start …

Schools face important policy tradeoffs in monitoring and managing student behavior. Strict discipline policies may … switches, we show that schools with higher suspension rates have substantial negative long-run impacts. Students assigned to a …

schools that provide textbooks for grade six math students, where two-year attendance rates rose from .57 to .64. In these … same schools, students whose initial skills levels prepared them to use grade six math texts enjoyed significant gains in … math achievement. We find little evidence that PFP improved attendance or achievement in schools without books even though …