schooling, but the research indicates little consistent relationship between resources to schools and student achievement. Much …

“schools do not make a difference”, are incorrect, but the basic evidence behind the statement suggests serious performance … problems of government supply, because purchased inputs to schools are not closely related to outcomes. This paper reviews that … versus private provision and the financing of schools. …

Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices …, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools while remaining under public control. Despite …. This paper investigates the quality of charter schools in Texas in terms of mathematics and reading achievement and finds …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …

development through improving the quality of schools. While we consider the impact for each state of a range of educational …

Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at … improvements in the charter sector. We study quality changes among Texas charter schools between 2001 and 2011. Our results suggest … that the charter sector was initially characterized by schools whose quality was highly variable and, on average, less …

components - particularly in the public sector. Schools provide an especially rich environment for studying the impact of public … achievement reveal significant variation in principal quality that appears to be larger for high-poverty schools. Alternate lower … that are still important, particularly for high poverty schools. Patterns of teacher exits by principal quality validate …

-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

Developing countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on schools, educational materials and teachers …