students can best make use of their time to seek to expand their knowledge, relationships and school participation. While there … extended school days implemented under the Programa Mais Educação ('More Education' programme - PME), an initiative of the …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice program, a school choice initiative that created small high school … public school choice programs have the potential to improve school quality and reduce neighborhood-based disparities in …

This paper evaluates the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program in Los Angeles, a school choice initiative that created small … high school markets in some neighborhoods but left traditional attendance zone boundaries in place throughout the rest of … gaps between ZOC neighborhoods and the rest of the district. These gains are explained by general improvements in school …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … more foreign language classes during compulsory school has only minor effects on educational choices of the overall student … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school's language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …

language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … more foreign language classes during compulsory school has only minor effects on educational choices of the overall student … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school's language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …