We show that Progress 8 is a reliable measure of school effectiveness and that parents often do not apply to their most … effective local school. …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … leaving school. Moreover, the schools that would yield the highest final test scores for these students - provided they do not … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation …

Front Cover -- Family Environments, School Resources, and Educational Outcomes -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of … Contributors -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Introduction: Family Environments, School Resources, and Educational Outcomes … Questions about Schools -- What Is the Distribution of School Quality? -- How Do Social Conditions Outside of School Shape the …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The … main contribution is to show that while previously ineligible high-SES students are relatively more likely to enroll in the … highest (academic) track than comparable low-SES students after the repeal, the SES gap in academic track enrollment does not …

We analyze differences in school quality using a comprehensive panel data set covering all upper secondary school … graduates in Finland during the years 2002-2013. School quality is defined as the effect of the school on matriculation exam … (2013) we are able to measure both cross-sectional differences in school quality and the persistence of these differences …

mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP students than for LEP students. The overall language mix of LEP students … has little if any discernable relationship with achievement. For LEP students, having more LEP peers speak their mother …