, but were significantly larger in districts with larger populations of students who are Black, Hispanic or eligible for …

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long … basic skills apparently led to generally reduced performance by high-achieving students, while an accountability system … other technical subjects. Both types of systems are associated with increased "cramming" by students in college. The results …

students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually … between teachers and students at this level amplify boys' large underperformance in reading while attenuating the more modest …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

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 …

interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both …

students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at a relatively broad range of outcomes, including college and graduate …