A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …

characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and …

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …

that Italian students receive during the school year. Using data for all sixth graders, descriptives show that in both …