,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …

Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains … instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow learning profiles are in part the result of curricular paces moving much … faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we …

We study the impact of classroom rank on children’s learning using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school …

We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning …

-scale retailers in rural western Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with traditional "lecturing" within standardized … lesson-plans. After six months, active learning has a positive effect on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast to … for the active learning group, such as a 60 percent increase in investments. As an adverse outcome, reported late payment …