remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … behavior in school. The grants did not impact parent or student behaviors. Notably, we do not find impacts of either …

We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test … from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high-school … graduation, college-going, and school-based arrests. These patterns are driven by the least advantaged students benefiting the …

school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I … have better academic achievement, within-school short-run increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high …-achievement schools. Short-run (direct) peer quality accounts for only one tenth of school value-added on average, but at least one …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with …

School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic … advantage of these programs. To overcome this difficulty, we exploit randomized lotteries that determine high school admission …

disappears when we control for a small number of covariates. Over the first two years of school, however, Blacks lose substantial … ground relative to other races. There is suggestive evidence that differences in school quality may be an important part of …

feedback effect black school enrollment increased in states that had previously experienced high rates of black out …