implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted … technology that is increasingly ubiquitous: school-to-parent communication technologies. Using data from a Learning Management … System in several hundred schools and a two-stage experiment to study the adoption of this technology by parents, I find: A …

We conduct an experiment to understand how enrollment defaults affect the take up and impact of an education technology …% increase in willingness to pay for the technology when shifting implementation to automatic enrollment. …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to …