Education choice exercises a powerful pull on parents of school children: Twenty-four percent report that they moved to their current neighborhood so their children could attend their current school;
Low college enrollment rates among low-income students may stem from a combination of credit constraints, low academic skill, and low-quality schools.
The proposition that public school teachers should experience continuous improvement through active, broad-based participation in professional learning communities is now widely accepted.
What Works in Development?
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries. Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's educational outcomes even at these very low levels of education?
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time.
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS.
Estimates obtained from the first nationally representative longitudinal study of students in the United States in grades K-8, robust to both probit and propensity score matching models, provide empir
The author reflects on the state of public schools in the U.S. under the administration of President Barack Obama.
Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences, yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual inequality. Residual inequality is usually attributed to measureme
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