This study looks at the policies and practices shaping teacher quality in the Kansas City, Missouri School District … (KCMSD). It is part of a series of analyses by the National Council on Teacher Quality in school districts across the nation …

organizations include booster clubs, parent-teacher groups, public education funds, scholarship funds, high school alumni …

Compensation of K-12 school principals, and the effect that it has on the performance of the schools they lead, has …-2005 school years. Controlling for differences in cost of living across districts, a positive correlation between principal … school’s students on free and reduced lunch and teacher salaries were found to have a larger impact on student performance …

In this paper I estimate the relationship between school quality and mortality. Although many studies have linked the … quantity of education to health outcomes, the effect of school quality on health has yet to be examined. I construct synthetic …, and the length of school term and relative teacher wage. For instance, increasing the relative teacher wage by one …

School districts have more influence on home buyers’ choices than any other local-government unit, yet hardly anyone … knows why they exist. “Making the Grade” explains the development of American school districts and advances an economic … argument for their continued existence. In the nineteenth century, almost all districts governed a single, one-room school …

We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students’ mobility … between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is …

-income families. High-income families are also more likely to penalize house price for non-desirable non-academic school quality. This … paper uses quantile regression to examine the distribution of demand for school quality. For academic achievement, the … advantage of a court-ordered redistricting as a quasi-random assignment of school quality. Subdivision and school fixed …

recommends new policies that will potentially enhance the impact that teachers and school administrators have on the academic … achievement of public school students …

a War Relocation Authority school on labor market outcomes. Non-linear difference-in-differences estimates suggest that … attending school within the internment camps decreased the probability of receiving a post-collegiate education by approximately …. Furthermore, I estimate that attending a WRA school decreased the returns to a year of schooling by between 1.1 and 1.4 percentage …