achievement of students who do or do not experience a strike –an empirical strategy that is unlikely to reveal whether teacher … strikes affect students. These studies tend to conclude that strikes do not have a significant impact. A study by CLSRN …

quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …

providing no additional liquidity. Second, the grants were only available to students if parental income was below a fixed …, closely mimicking random assignment. Despite the large size of the grants (up to $6,000 or $7,000), the fact that students …

potential dropouts, yet we know much less about the size of the benefiÂ…t for students who will go on to post …-secondary education. To help Â…fill this gap, I measure the value-added of a year of high-school mathematics for university-bound students … across subjects. The estimated value- added to an extra year of mathematics is small for these students –of the order of 17 …

We use administrative data on students in grades 4 and 7 in British Columbia to examine the extent to which differences … in school environment contribute to the achievement gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students as measured by … standardized test scores. We find that segregation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students is substantial, and that differences …