The use of test scores as a performance measure in high-stakes educational accountability
has become increasingly popular since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of …

Students' abilities are multidimensional; teachers and schools shape students' cognitive
skills, most often captured by test scores, but they also shape students' non-cognitive skills …

High school graduation rates in the United States are at an all-time high, yet many of these
graduates are deemed not ready for postsecondary coursework when they enter college …

This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect of high school Grade Point Average
(GPA) on the human capital development and labor market trajectory of individuals. Causal …

We examine whether voucher programme regulation reduces private school specialisation
in the US. We employ school-and-year fixed-effects regression and examine individual …

We examine the effects of Milwaukee's school voucher program on adult criminal activity
and paternity suits. Using matched student-level data, we find that exposure to the program …

Private school choice programs are rapidly gaining traction, with nearly 450,000 student
participants in 2019--an increase of 300,000 students in just 15 years. This report evaluates …

We employ probit regression analysis to compare the adult voting activity of students who
participated in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) to their matched public …

Charter schools were originally intended to improve the American public education system
by introducing innovative practices that could be replicated elsewhere. Charter critics and …

This study investigates school dropout, particularly the shift to open high schools in Türkiye
during the pandemic, through a multi-stakeholder lens. Using grounded theory, data was …