Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on
education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making …

In recent years, there has been widespread interest around the potential for technology to
transform learning. As investment in education technology continues to grow, students …

We study a program designed to encourage learning from coworkers among school
teachers. In an experiment, we document gains in job performance when high-and low …

Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

Value-added data have become an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and
teachers. Many school districts have begun to adopt these methods and have released …

This paper reports on a field experiment in 82 high schools trialing a low-cost intervention in
schools' operations: teachers working in the same school observed and scored each other's …

Abstract Evaluation and training are important features of the employment relationship
between teachers and the schools they work for. The first feature, evaluation, involves …

A colorful history of US research universities, and a market-based theory of their global
success. American education has its share of problems, but it excels in at least one area …

In this article we investigate whether quantifying school performance can have the
unintended consequence of increasing the spatial concentration of advantage. Combining …

Research on economization processes is increasingly taking seriously the social and
material processes through which various policy domains are transformed into economic …