the impact of flip charts on the relative performance of students in flip chart and other subjects across schools with and …

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 …

instructional expenditure categories influence graduation and first-year persistence rates of undergraduate students.Our most … higher for students at institutions with lower entrance test scores and higher Pell Grant expenditures per student. Put …

skills. Students randomly assigned to computer-aided instruction score 0.17 of a standard deviation higher on pre …-algebra/algebra tests than students randomly assigned to traditional instruction. We hypothesize that the effectiveness arises from … increased individualized instruction as the effects appear larger for students in larger classes and in classes with high …

to test whether textbook consumers are forward-looking. The data strongly support the view that students are forward … students buy their textbooks, they correctly take into account the probability that they will not be able to resell their books … suggest that students are sufficiently forward-looking that publishers could not raise revenues by accelerating current …

pupils' academic achievements? In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students' achievement using …

quality of instruction, the classroom environment, and the rate at which students translate classroom time into added …

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

retention in the third-grade substantially improves the English skills of these students, reducing the time to proficiency by … larger for foreign born students, students with higher latent human capital in third grade as proxied by their math scores …, students whose first language is Spanish, and students in lower-poverty elementary schools …