achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from more than two …This paper explores differences in the frequency with which students from different schools reach high levels of math … thousand public, coeducational, non-magnet, non-charter U.S. high schools. High-achieving students are found to be very far …

active and tend to be more performance oriented. Students, although showing a better performance, are less motivated in …

school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in non-urban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories …

We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full … compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education … resources might dampen the negative externalities associated with misbehaving students, and thus work to improve the performance …

international comparative tests in Mathematics and Science during the period 1980 to 2003. In fixed effects panel models, government …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …