The increased popularity of college Grade Forgiveness policies, which allow students to retake classes and substitute … first to ask whether such policies benefit students and how. To answer these questions, we use student-level admissions and … Grade Forgiveness significantly incentivizes students, especially students with the strongest academic preparation, to take …

scores rightward, moving students into higher quartiles of the state SAT score distribution. Boston's charter high schools …

completion and earnings for all students. We find evidence of meaningful complementarity between student ability and college … students to higher quality colleges …

subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to …-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …

Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …

enrollment patterns and the academic outcomes of community college students using administrative college-level panel data … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college … enrolment dropped precipitously in fall 2020 - the total number of enrolled students fell by 4 percent in spring 2020 and by 15 …

instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … sciences and STEM - introductory chemistry labs - at a large public university. The uncommon assignment method of students to … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …