Middle- and upper-class parents tend to think that school systems in which students from different socio … residential segregation or private schools might contribute to a segregation of students from different socio-economic backgrounds … find that in education systems in which schools become more socially inclusive, students from disadvantaged families …

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted … tracks at different schools) to get difference-in-differences (DD) estimates for all students above the admission cutoff …. Second, we use the GT admission rule to get regression discontinuity (RD) estimates for students near the admission cutoff …

Immigrant students who share a common country of origin, and therefore many cultural similarities, perform very … differently across school systems. The difference in performance between immigrant students and non-immigrant students of similar … socio-economic status is smaller in school systems with large immigrant populations and where immigrant students are as …

performance. The success or lack of success that students experience in the classroom is impacted by variables not controlled by … the teacher in the classroom. The opportunity for students to manage their attendance is often times out of their control … therefore, impact the student’s ability to achieve. The role of the parent is multifaceted and therefore extends even to that of …