Program and policy effects
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Tutoring, Mathematics education, Covid-19 recoveryWe provide evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a novel, 100-percent online math tutoring program, targeted at secondary school students from highly disadvantaged neighborhoods. The intensive, eight-week-long program was delivered by qualified math teachers in… more →
- .Categories: Standards, Assessment, and Curriculum
Tags: Gifted education, Race, ethnicity, and education, Students with disabilitiesPrior research has documented substantial inequity across, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines within the population of students identified as gifted. Less attention has paid to the equity of gifted identification for student learning English or those with disabilities and what effect state… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: International and comparative, School reformSchool autonomy has been and continues to be one of the most important education reform strategies around the world despite ambiguity about its theoretical and empirical effects on students learning. We use international data from PISA to test three country-level factors that might account for… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Early childhood educationA systematic review of the literature (1965–2022) and meta-analysis were undertaken to compare the school readiness skills of children participating in public pre-kindergarten (pre-K) or Head Start. Seven quasi-experimental studies met the inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis and 38 effect… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Equity, High schoolsThe Advanced Placement (AP) program is nearly ubiquitous in American high schools and is often touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to… more →
- .Categories: Standards, Assessment, and Curriculum
Tags: Mathematics education, Equity, Ability groupingA controversial, equity-focused mathematics reform in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) featured delaying Algebra I until ninth grade for all students. This descriptive study examines student-level longitudinal data on mathematics course-taking across successive cohorts of SFUSD… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: International and comparative, Assessment, Higher educationGiven the spike of homicides in conflict zones of Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement, I study the causal effect of violence on college test scores. Using a difference-in-difference design with heterogeneous effects, I show how this increase in violence had a negative effect on college… more →
- .Categories: Teacher and Leader Development
Tags: Culturally responsive schooling, Instructional practices, EquityOur study examines roughly 2,000 novice teachers’ responses about how they account for students’ cultural, ethnic/racial, and linguistic diversity. We qualitatively analyze robust open-ended survey responses to explore teachers’ reported strategies for how they integrate asset-based pedagogy (… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: High schools, Returns to education and skills, Human capitalImproving education and labor market outcomes for low-income students is critical for advancing socioeconomic mobility in the United States. We explore how Massachusetts public high schools affect the longer-term outcomes of low-income students, using detailed longitudinal data. We estimate… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Higher education, Returns to education and skills, Race, ethnicity, and educationFour-year public colleges may play an important role in supporting intergenerational mobility by providing an accessible path to a bachelor’s degree and increasing students' earnings. Leveraging a midsize state’s GPA- and SAT-based admissions thresholds for the four-year public sector, I use a… more →
- .Categories: Methods
Tags: Early childhood educationLottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S.
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: International and comparative, AssessmentThe Revista del Centro de Estudios Educativos, numero 3, 1971 included an early Carnoy article on the economics of education: “Un enfoque de sistemas para evaluar la educación, ilustrado con datos de Puerto Rico.” The article used a unique data set that had student test scores, students’ family… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Rural educationWe study the effects of increased school spending in rural American school districts by leveraging the introduction and subsequent expansion of Wisconsin’s Sparsity Aid Program. We find that the program, which provides additional state funding to small and isolated school districts, increased… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: School climate and culture, Student discipline, School reformDoes relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior, replacing them with less disruptive interventions. Using a difference… more →
- .Categories: Families and Communities
Tags: Instructional practices, School reformFaced with decreasing funds and increasing costs, a growing number of school districts across the United States are switching to four-day school weeks (4DSWs). Although previously used only by rural districts, the policy has begun to gain traction in metropolitan districts. We examine homeowner… more →
- .Categories: Student Well-Being
Tags: Absenteeism, Human capital, High schoolsWe provide evidence that graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws, originally intended to improve public safety, impact human capital accumulation. Many teens use automobiles to access both school and employment. Because school and work decisions are interrelated, the effects of automobile-specific… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: Higher education, EquityAs affirmative action loses political feasibility, many universities have implemented race-neutral alternatives like top percent policies and holistic review to increase enrollment among disadvantaged students. I study these policies’ application, admission, and enrollment effects using… more →
- .Categories: Teacher and Leader Development
Tags: Instructional technology, Covid-19 recoveryThe Cobb Teaching & Learning System (CTLS) is a digital learning initiative developed for and by the Cobb County School District (CCSD) in Georgia. CTLS became a crucial initiative used by the district to maintain student academic progress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adopting a mixed-… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Higher educationDespite the growing popularity of free college proposals, countries with higher college subsidies tend to have higher enrollment rates but not higher graduation rates. To capture this evidence and evaluate potential free college policies, we rely on a dynamic model of college enrollment,… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Higher education, International and comparative, Returns to education and skillsShort-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs’ practices and inputs (quality determinants) and… more →