An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of
educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The …

How do school resources affect students' academic achievement? This chapter provides a
survey of economists' work on the effect of expenditure and class size on student …

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

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OF HAPPINESS Page 3 Page 4 The Origins Of happiness The Science of Well-Being over the …

This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how
achievement tests relate to other measures of “cognitive ability” like IQ and grades; the …

This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers and school administrators
need to recognize and combat bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement …

We show that grit, a skill that has been shown to be highly predictive of achievement, is
malleable in childhood and can be fostered in the classroom environment. We evaluate a …

We used self-report surveys to gather information on a broad set of non-cognitive skills from
1,368 eighth graders. At the student level, scales measuring conscientiousness, self-control …

Abstract In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly
assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This article …

Multiple traits compose a broad definition of what it means to be an educated person.
Indisputably, being an educated person is associated with having a certain command of a …