students in the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the country. Enrollment dropped … precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and by … another 7 percent from fall 2020 to fall 2021. The California Community College system lost nearly 300,000 students over this …

We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda … business than participants in control schools. The training induced students to participate more actively in their school … students to sustain their business activities during the COVID-19 crisis …

This paper examines the effects of high school de-tracking on Korean SAT scores. After accounting for the sample …: classroom effects from peer quality and teaching effectiveness, campus effects from school facilities and resources, and … changes. We also find that the negative effect of de-tracking is the strongest for students at the top percentiles of the …

Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs teach disruptive students to improve their classroom behavior. Small …-scale programs in high-income countries have been shown to improve treated students' behavior and academic outcomes. Using a … randomized experiment, we show that a nationwide SEL program in Chile has no effect on eligible students. We find evidence that …

recruits a corps of 40 to 100 community volunteers to work one-on-one with students in pull-out sessions during the school day … provide one-on-one tutoring to struggling readers in underresourced elementary schools. At each school, Reading Partners … or after school in kindergarten through grade 5. The evaluation was conducted during the 2012-2013 school year in 19 …

students in North Carolina I estimate teacher effects on primary school student absences in a value-added framework. The …

Using data from seven cohorts of language immersion lottery applicants in a large, urban school district, we estimate … the causal effects of immersion on students' test scores in reading, mathematics, and science, and on English learners … grades, ranging from 13 to 22 percent of a standard deviation, reflecting 7 to 9 months of learning. We find little benefit …

understands is not associated with a better performance of less able students. On the contrary, it produces substantial … less able students without lowering the performance of the most able ones …

This paper examines the impact of urban violence on the standardized test scores of public school students in Medellin …. I use the school-level variation in exposure to local homicides for years 2004-2013 in a model that includes school and … occurring within 500 meters of a school reduces student achievement by slightly over 0.01 standard deviations on a variety of …