Should federally mandated school accountability and testing requirements be abandoned? With Congress actively considering a major revision…
My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered…
This working paper seeks to determine the preferences of Boston parents for certain school attributes. It analyzes data provided by the…
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We evaluate a 'girl-friendly' primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design. After 2.5 years, the program…
Providing the first experimental estimate of the long-term impacts of an offer of a private-school
voucher to low-income families, we link…
"If I like a boy I cannot tell anybody about my choice because I am a girl. I like making friends with boys but being a girl I cannot do…
In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity to obtain the…
Success or failure in freshman math has long been thought to have a strong impact on
subsequent high school outcomes. We study an intensive…
The vast majority of low-income, high-achieving students in the U.S. do not even apply to any selective colleges, in spite of the fact that…