that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year … achievement but do not alter students' performance trajectories …

that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year … achievement but do not alter students' performance trajectories. -- educational production ; public schools ; grade configuration …

school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in nonurban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories. -- educational production ; public schools ; grade configuration ; middle schools ; high …

lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We … findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose challenging academic track highschools compared with their Italian … counterparts, after controlling for householdcharacteristics, school fixed effects, and students' performance. We show …

school tracks also to align with their own aspirations – resulting in greater misallocation of students …

school tracks also to align with their own aspirations – resulting in greater misallocation of students …

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 …

that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year … achievement but do not alter students' performance trajectories. …