(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a … significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students … school degree, attending the most academic track, or repeating a grade. …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …

lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We … counterparts, after controlling for householdcharacteristics, school fixed effects, and students' performance. We show … findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose challenging academic track highschools compared with their Italian …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … schools allocate weaker students to smaller classes and offer more remedial tutoring. Notably, parents provide more support to …

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of … the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …. Based on exogenous variation in the school entry age by birth month, we obtain regression discontinuity estimates for …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …