/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …

start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school … can be derived for one cohort of students, to the 1980 Census, which contains educational attainment for the same cohort … of students. The results suggest that roughly 10 percent of students were constrained to stay in school by compulsory …

special-need students, groups that charter critics have argued are typically under-served. The results show overall gains of 0 ….35 standard deviations in math and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn. LEP students, special … education students, and those with low baseline scores benefit more from time spent at KIPP than do other students, with reading …

no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …

non-charter levels (that is, the average achievement level for urban non-charter students), and beyond non …