Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...

We investigate the impact of an ambitious provincial school reform in Canada on students. mathematical achievements. This reform provides advantages for the purpose of evaluation and cuts across some of the methodological difficulties of previous research. First, the reform was implemented in...

Ergänzend zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 17/2008 stellt Christa Goetsch, Senatorin für Schule, Berufs- und Weiterbildung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, die Bildungspolitik des Hamburger Senats vor. Ab 2010 wird eine neue Schulstruktur deutlich über die Grenzen der dreigliedrigen...