can lead to school failure and this means that one in every five young adults on average drop out before completing upper … secondary education. Reducing school failure pays off for both society and individuals. The highest performing education systems …

Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. Students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged …

A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …

residential sorting on school quality can explain this fact. We combine 15 years of data on public elementary school students in … North Carolina with geocoded school locations and proxy city size with a measure of school density in a local labor market …. Assortative matching between student advantage and school quality markedly increases with city size, accounting for 10% of the …

Based on data out of the 1970s, the "Heyneman-Loxley Effect" proposed that in developing countries, school … characteristics were more important than family socioeconomic status in determining school achievement. In this paper, I reassess … model analysis reveal that school characteristics in the African context become even more important when national economic …