High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some … states offer alternative, non-tested pathways to graduation for students who have failed their exit exams. This study …

students. Over the years, tracking has received harsh criticism. In fact, policymakers have launched initiatives to discourage … tracking across the nation, and started recommending districts place students with different ability levels in the same … classrooms (Wheelock 1992). Opponents argue that tracking not only fails to benefit students, but in racially integrated schools …

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low-income … scores. Most students also prefer campuses with students of similar race, income, and high school class rank, but only highly …

of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of seconddecile minority … students decreased, respectively, by 2.4 and 3.3 percentage points. The effect of the change in admissions policy was slightly …

of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of second-decile minority … students decreased, respectively, by 2.4 and 3.3 percentage points. The effect of the change in admissions policy was slightly …