Following a 2007 Supreme Court decision restricting the use of race for school assignments, school boards desiring greater diversity turned to economic integration, meaning equalizing the proportion of low-income students in each school in a district. Among other claimed benefits, most advocates...

Calls for universal preschool programs have become commonplace, reinforced by President Obama's call for “high-quality preschool for all” in 2013. Any program that could cost state and federal taxpayers $50 billion per year warrants a closer look at the evidence on its effectiveness.This...

Established in 1965, Title I seeks to improve the educational achievement of U.S. students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 made this goal more specific. Because its mandate is to attain 100 percent proficiency, in effect this means closing the achievement...

President Obama has proposed "Preschool for All" with a pledge of $75 million to the states to implement "high quality" full-time preschool programs for low-income children as part of the regular K-12 system. The states would come up with additional funds to provide for the remaining higher...

This paper investigates whether international differences in math and science achievement, and specifically the lower US scores, can be explained by school programmatic, institutional, and resource differences after controlling for family SES factors. Using 2006 PISA student-level data for the...