features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house prices at school district boundaries where peer … bottom of the state SAT score distribution to a school with scores near the median. Successful applicants near admissions …

features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house prices at school district boundaries where peer … bottom of the state SAT score distribution to a school with scores near the median. Successful applicants near admissions …

which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates of the effects of charter school attendance on middle-schoolers in … exclusion restriction in such comparisons. Estimates for a large sample of takeover schools in the New Orleans Recovery School … for a middle school, grandfathered students see achievement gains at least as large as the gains for students assigned …

features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

student-level and school-level explanations for this difference in Massachusetts. In an econometric framework that isolates … school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …-urban charter schools are uniformly ineffective. Our estimates also reveal important school-level heterogeneity within the urban …

Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house prices at school district boundaries where peer … bottom of the state SAT score distribution to a school with scores near the median. Successful applicants near admissions …

In Fall 2009, Chicago authorities abandoned a school assignment mechanism midstream, citing concerns about its …

which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates of the effect of charter school attendance on middle-schoolers in charter … exclusion restriction in such comparisons. Estimates for a large sample of takeover schools in the New Orleans Recovery School … for a middle school, grandfathered students see achievement gains at least as large as the gains for students assigned …