(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and … noncognitive abilities. In contrast, these effects are not observed for subject teachers who are responsible only for teaching …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

educational performance of female students, our empirical analysis shows that the gender gap in student progression (number of …

increased for students with parental migration background. Taken together, these findings suggest that moving to a compressed … high-school curriculum did not compromise and benefited, on average, students' cognitive skills. However, they also raise …

. Among others, students with only 12 years of schooling have some difficulties and skill deficits at university, but no …

High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some … states offer alternative, non-tested pathways to graduation for students who have failed their exit exams. This study …

application rates, particularly for Hispanic students, are not explained by differential levels of college readiness, high school … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …

schools that did not have a history of sending students to the flagship campuses. Our analysis reveals an increase in the … likelihood that high schools in non-suburban areas sent students to the flagship campuses, but ultimately little to no equity … schools on the flagship campuses continued to dwarf the population of students from other high schools. Thus, the purported …