We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on … students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out …

Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important … rich auxiliary information on all schools and pupils sampled for PISA whether responding or not, including data from two … large-scale administrative sources on pupils' results in national public exams, which correlate highly with the PISA target …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child …'s probability of developing special educational needs in early grades. We find that starting school at a relatively older age …

among schools and other workplaces. However, the types of practices that improve school performance are different from those …

than white teachers. Although the primary goal of school closings is typically to move students out of declining or failing …School closings displace thousands of teachers in the US every year. This paper explores how 3rd to 5th grade teachers … school closings in our study, we find that while most displaced teachers move to new schools in the same district, a …

U.S. students in different ethnic groups have very different average scores on the PISA 2012 mathematics and reading … tests, with Blacks and Hispanics showing negative gaps relative to White students and Asians showing a positive gap. I … investigate whether a student's family characteristics or the school attended can explain these differences. I find that Hispanic …

-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic … in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure …

students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest …The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school … periods of shutdown. Comparison of the learning outcomes with pre- and post-COVID-19 samples shows that the learning loss was …

sort out of public education and into private schooling. The IRCA differentially increases Hispanic school board members … public education, I find significant post-legalization increases in student enrollment and student-to-teacher ratios in … and school expenditure, highlighting legal status as a driver of Hispanic human capital accumulation and representation. …

Using a randomized experiment in 200 Bangladeshi villages, we evaluate the impact of an over-the-phone learning support … intervention (telementoring) among primary school children and their mothers during Covid-19 school closures. Post … 22 minutes per day (26%). We also found that the intervention forestalled treated children's learning losses. When we …