In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on
large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The …

High school exit exams are affecting a growing majority of high school students. Although
exit testing polices were enacted with the goal of improving student achievement as well as …

Recent randomized experiments have found that seemingly “small” social-psychological
interventions in education—that is, brief exercises that target students' thoughts, feelings …

Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use
scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are …

We analyze a Massachusetts merit aid program that gives high-scoring students tuition
waivers at in-state public colleges with lower graduation rates than available alternative …

Melissa Roderick, Jenny Nagaoka, and Vanessa Coca focus on the importance of improving
college access and readiness for low-income and minority students in urban high schools …

Across the United States, students who are deemed not to be proficient in English are
classified as English learners (ELs). This classification entitles students to specialized …

Public Policy and Higher Education provides readers with new ways to analyze complex
state policies and offers the tools to examine how policies affect students' access and …

Measures of socioeconomic status (SES) are routinely used in analyses of achievement
data to increase statistical power, statistically control for the effects of SES, and enhance …

In the absence of a randomized control trial, regression discontinuity (RD) designs can
produce plausible estimates of the treatment effect on an outcome for individuals near a …