Market-based policies, especially school vouchers, are expanding rapidly and shifting
students out of traditional public schools. This article broadens, deepens, and updates prior …

We study the effects of the COVID pandemic on educational attainment. By 2022, entry into
two-year colleges was 21 percent lower than before the pandemic, with larger declines in …

Hurricane Katrina was one of the nation's worst natural disasters. It also triggered one of the
nation's most intense market-based school reforms, in which almost all traditional public …

Diversos organismos y países se han propuesto como prioridad fomentar que las infancias
y las juventudes finalicen su enseñanza secundaria como garantía de equidad. Sin …

A central premise of the US No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was that test-based
accountability systems would break through local politics and lead districts to prioritize the …

The transition out of adolescence signals a period of increasing personal and social
responsibility. For many this means entering postsecondary or the labor market. Previous …

An emerging body of research links online credit recovery programs to rising high school
graduation rates but does not find comparable increases in student learning. This study …

We study the return of local control in New Orleans after a state takeover that turned all of the
schools into charter schools. Analysis of media reports, school board meetings, school …

Diversos organismos y países se han propuesto como prioridad fomentar que las infancias
y las juventudes finalicen su enseñanza secundaria como garantía de equidad. Sin …

This chapter discusses key issues in education access and quality, beginning with an
overview of how federal laws and policies shape US education and especially reflecting on …