The charter school movement is nearing its 25th anniversary, making this an opportune time
to take stock of the movement by addressing the following questions: Where do charter …

Conventional value-added models (VAMs) compare average test scores across schools
after regression-adjusting for students' demographic characteristics and previous scores …

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of large-scale public preschool in Boston
on college-going, college preparation, standardized test scores, and behavioral outcomes …

We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or virtual
learning) in the 2020–2021 school year on students' pass rates on standardized tests in …

We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance
learning) on test scores. We combine Spring 2021 state standardized test score data with …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward
effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

We collect data on management practices in over 1,800 high schools in eight countries. We
show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …

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 …

No recent reform has had so profound an effect as no-excuses schools in increasing the
achievement of low-income black and Hispanic students. In the past decade, no-excuses …