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School districts historically approached conflict-resolution from a zero-sum perspective: suspend students seen as …, improved school climate, and find no evidence of increased classroom disruption. We estimate a 19% decrease in arrests …, including for violent offenses, with reduced arrests outside of school, providing evidence that RP substantively changed …
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preceding GCSE exams. Students score higher in math when their teacher devotes more class time to individual practice and … assessment. In contrast, students score higher in English if there is more discussion and work with classmates. Class time …
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We demonstrate how mothers, fathers, and 15-17-year-old students alter their schedules around the K-12 academic year …. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When …
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National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to include stricter nutritional requirements. We use data on school lunch menus to … document improvements in the nutritional quality of school meals between 1991 and 2010. We then evaluate how this change in … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …
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We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more …
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School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational …
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designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before … year for students in the program schools. Supplementary event study and synthetic control analyses to detect year …
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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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Leveraging rich data on the universe of Texas high school graduates, we estimate how the relationship between …-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are sensitive to the distance they must travel to access public colleges … and universities, but there are heterogeneous effects across students - particularly with regard to distance to public two …
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College success requires students to engage with their institution academically and administratively. Missteps with …-based chatbot that proactively reached out to students to support navigation of administrative processes and use of campus resources … targeting college students to formulate testable hypotheses about their effective use for promoting college success …
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