One of the most controversial educational practices among American public schools is the use of ability-tracking of students. Over the years, tracking has received harsh criticism. In fact, policymakers have launched initiatives to discourage tracking across the nation, and started recommending...

Every three years, with the publication of the PISA survey results, a ritual of comparisons is beginning: "Growing Gaps", "Major Drop" and "Huge Gaps in Ability" are some of the popular headlines describing the performance gaps between population groups within and between countries. The stated...

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

Many large universities require freshman to live in dormitories on the basis that living on campus leads to better classroom performance and lower drop out incidence. Large universities also provide a number of academic services in dormitories such as tutoring and student organizations that...

The renewed focus on the importance of human capital for social development and economic growth, and the recently published evidence on wide international disparities in student achievements, have led to a new interest in the determinants of schooling quality. This paper evaluates the effect on...

I administer a quasi-experiment using undergraduate political science majors in statistics classes to evaluate whether “flipping the classroom” (the treatment) alters students’ applied problem-solving performance and satisfaction relative to students in a traditional classroom environment...