School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and … status, language proficiency, immigrants' time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a …

Child poverty -- Unemployment -- Race and poverty -- Family characteristics -- School behavior -- Homelessness -- Gangs …

countries ensure that all children go to school and learn. This paper is part of a suite of what matters papers published under …) providing general conditions that enable all children to start school ready to learn and remain in school; and (3) ensuring that … all children, especially vulnerable groups of children, learn in school …