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

black schooling over the past century. To test this hypothesis we have assembled data on three aspects of school quality … 1966. The school quality data are linked to estimated rates of return to education for Southern-born men from different …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the …

We study the effects of private school competition on public school students' test scores in the wake of Florida … to a more competitive private school landscape saw greater improvements in their test scores after the introduction of … private school options open to students. We find that greater degrees of competition are associated with greater improvements …

public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior … Lynn, a KIPP charter school that is mostly Hispanic and has a high concentration of limited English proficiency (LEP) and …

eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are … effects in elementary school close the racial achievement gap in both subjects. We conclude by presenting four pieces of …

The option to obtain a General Education Development (GED) certificate changes the incentives facing high school … students. This paper evaluates the effect of three different GED policy innovations on high school graduation rates. A six … high school dropout rates. The introduction of a GED certification program in high schools in Oregon produced a four …