School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational …

designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before … year for students in the program schools. Supplementary event study and synthetic control analyses to detect year …

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning … outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the … achievement of students who are as good as randomly enroled in schools ranked differently in their application. Enroling at the …

Malaysia to document student learning experiences during the early months of the home-to-school transition. We do so in … find that 59% of secondary and 72% of primary level students report that they are happy to be back in school. School …), particularly among secondary school students. More importantly, those satisfied upon return to school report a statistically …

This paper estimates the impact on children's learning of one specific education technology (EdTech) intervention in … Bangladesh: providing tablets with educational software, combined with private tutoring, to out-of-school students using a … distance education during school closures, such as those caused by pandemics. …

This study examines the prevalence of permanent school closures before and after the COVID-19 pandemic and their … reveals a downward trend in closure rates, with significant variation across school characteristics and states. Poisson …

We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are …

us to address these problems. We find that an adolescent's performance at the end of junior high-school are strongly … influenced by the performance of other adolescents in the neighbourhood. -- neighborhood effects on education …

-track high school students upon treatment. A more direct estimate of the effects of the increased learning intensity - as … school duration by one year while keeping its curriculum unaltered to investigate how the resulting increase in learning … measured by the cumulative weekly number of instructional hours delivered in high school grades - corroborates the latter …