accountability systems provide considerable information about student outcomes and rate schools on that basis. However, the No Child … incentives and principal productivity and adversely affect the quality of education in Texas public schools …

attributable to the endogeneity of school and residential choice. In addition, Black schools' funding and staffing decisions were … made rather arbitrarily by a White government that was at best indifferent to the needs of Black schools. Large differences … in pupil/teacher ratios developed between Black schools, differences much larger than those observed in the United States …

using data where class size variations are truly exogenous. Second, Catholic schools have large classes and better … function that maps the substitution of discipline for class size, which may explain why Catholic schools, with large classes …, out-perform public schools. The same technology also implies that class size effects are larger for problem children than …

The effect of interracial contact in public schools on the enrollment of whites has been an important concern in … mixed public schools -- could undermine the racial contact that desegregation policy seeks to enhance. This study examines … racial composition and enrollment in all schools and school districts in 238 metropolitan areas. The study finds that white …

public schools of non-Democratic winners also relatively increase, but this effect is driven by changing student composition …