raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a …

This article examines whether the means-tested component of the National School Lunch Program changes beneficiaries …' dietary patterns by taking advantage of variation across public school districts in the financing of and demand for lunch and … nutrition programs. Using data on fifth grade public elementary school children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study …

school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true … high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the official rate issued by the National Center for Educational … and have not converged over the past 35 years; (d) the decline in high school graduation rates occurs among native …

8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … school. Parenting matters, and the true measure of child advantage and disadvantage is the quality of parenting received. A …

features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of … are far from insurmountable. -- school quality ; performance measures ; education incentives …

are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …