Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across … districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores … for identifying parental evaluations of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is …

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of …. The literature finds that the GED testing program distorts social statistics on high school completion rates, minority …

, already at risk of dropping out of school, teen pregnancy, crime, and a lifetime of low-wage work. This is bad for all those …