education in top colleges accessible to students from peripheral areas who typically did not enroll in university programs …

In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase … 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 …

students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs … that ACT science scores improved by 0.2 points (or roughly 0.04 standard deviations) as a result of the MMC. Students who … impact on high school graduation for students who entered high school with the weakest academic preparation, but other …

female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …

outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs … and Hindi test scores by 0.59ó and 0.36ó respectively. We find similar absolute test score gains for all students, but the … relative gain was much greater for academically-weaker students because their rate of learning in the control group was close …

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

and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one … activities. The review shows substantial losses in cognitive skills on achievement tests, particularly for students from …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …

due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …

argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …