This paper studies the effects of open-enrolment on student performance in the context of an admission reform in Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situated closest to where they lived, but from the fall of 2000 and onwards, admission is based on...

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide is often viewed as a crucial component for educational success. We estimate the impact of individual principals on various schooling outcomes, by constructing a principal-school panel data...

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...

Das Projekt "Smarte Schulen - SMASCH" wurde Anfang 2021 im Rahmen des Zentrums für Digitalisierungs- und Technologieforschung der Universitäten der Bundeswehr (dtec.bw) initiiert. Dtec.bw wurde von der Bundesregierung unter der Überschrift "Corona-Folgen bekämpfen, Wohlstand sichern,...

Zum Schutz vor Corona musste das Lernen und Lehren an Hochschulen, Schulen sowie anderen Aus- und Weiterbildungseinrichtungen zeitweise nahezu vollständig ins Digitale überführt werden. Doch auch schon vor Corona hat kaum noch jemand ausschließlich analog, also ohne digitale Unterstützung,...

Even today, school segregation continues to be understood as legitimate in Germany. Charting the discourse of learning disability provides insights into special education's development as a segregated, independent system of school types and the resulting legitimacy that contributes to the...