of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

and student achievement at the high school level. The availability of test scores in multiple subjects for each student … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document … -- contributes to achievement gaps in high school …

violence affects high school graduation, college attendance, and teacher pay. Using data from the High School and Beyond survey …, I find that local violence has important effects. Moderate levels of violence reduce the likelihood of high school …

I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results … school and the increasing availability of the GED credential help to explain stagnation in the face of substantial gaps … between the wages of high school graduates and school dropouts. I point out that there are several hypotheses, but to date …

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 …

Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Our results … within schools, and specific school and peer factors exert a significant effect on the growth in the achievement gap. Unequal … between grades 3 and 8. Moreover, non-random sample attrition for school changers and much higher rates of special education …