Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of…
Education choice exercises a powerful pull on parents of school children: Twenty-four percent report that they moved to their current…
The proposition that public school teachers should experience continuous improvement through active, broad-based participation in…
Low college enrollment rates among low-income students may stem from a combination of credit constraints, low academic skill, and low-…
What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…
Estimates obtained from the first nationally representative longitudinal study of students in the United States in grades K-8, robust to…
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-…
The author reflects on the state of public schools in the
U.S. under the administration of President Barack Obama. Ratings given
by the…