at the expense of students who are most diffiult to teach, including limited English proficiency (LEP) and special … education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. We use applicant lotteries to evaluate the … special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math …

-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …

school tracks also to align with their own aspirations – resulting in greater misallocation of students …

Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more … least one black teacher in grades 3-5 also increases the likelihood that persistently low-income students of both sexes … assignment of students and teachers to classrooms created by the Project STAR class-size reduction experiment …

activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records …

that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year … achievement but do not alter students' performance trajectories …