The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is … is negative. In addition, private schools have higher quality levels. …

What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and school policies? This paper offers the … both similarities and differences in the structure of American and German public opinion on schools and school policies. …

the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies … are state schools that are allowed to run in an autonomous manner which is free from local authority control. Almost all … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our …

paper, we examine for the first time whether schools are more hesitant to give feedback to homosexual parents during … schools. We created three types of fictitious couples; one heterosexual, one male homosexual and one female homosexual, and … send emails to schools making sexual orientation explicit. Our results show that men homosexual couples had a significant …

reform, which spurred the establishment of new independent voucher schools and introduced parental choice. The empirical … analysis assesses the relative importance of neighbourhood sorting, parental choice and the location of independent schools for … segregation that would occur if all pupils attended their assigned schools. The estimates suggest that the increase in school …

instrumental variable approach (based on local supply of schools). In a second step, we carefully examine the influence of …

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …