We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …

More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …

More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …

performance-based promotions could be an important tool for raising school quality. …

Nationwide, close to 40 million adults lack a high school diploma or a General Educational Development (GED) credential …. Nearly a quarter of high school freshmen do not graduate and, in many large cities, dropout rates in recent years have stood … at around 50 percent. And while most high school dropouts eventually do continue their education — usually through adult …