Some environmental influences, including intentional interventions, have shown persistent
effects on psychological characteristics and other socially important outcomes years and …

Many interventions targeting cognitive skills or socioemotional skills and behaviors
demonstrate initially promising but then quickly disappearing impacts. Our article seeks to …

Schools use an array of strategies to match curricula and instruction to students'
heterogeneous skills. Although generations of scholars have debated ''tracking''and its …

Between 2003 and 2013, the proportion of California eighth graders enrolled in algebra or a
more advanced course nearly doubled to 65%. In this article, we consider the organizational …

Teacher-assigned grades provide important information that is used by universities and
colleges to make admission decisions and by employers to make hiring decisions. Besides …

How should schools assign students to more rigorous math courses so as best to help their
academic outcomes? We identify several hundred California middle schools that used 7th …

Several years ago, the director of social services in Durham, North Carolina, came to our
Durham Connects Program research team with a request for collaboration. He administered …

The rise in college preparatory coursework across American high schools appears not to
affect college enrollment and graduation rates. This study uses the Civil Rights Data …

Abstract Using the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, the association between high
school exit exams and mathematics course-taking patterns is explored. Exit exams are …

In recent decades, several countries have made an effort to increase the enrollment rates
and performance of students in science and mathematics by means of mandatory, rigorous …