Search Results for: null hypothesis

A report from RAND on a Gates Foundation experiment called the Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching (IP) to try to help low-income minority (LIM) students. Overall, the initiative did not achieve its stated goals for students, particularly LIM students. By … Continue reading →

1. Jo Craven McGinty in the WSJ: Decades after the end of legalized segregation, and the funding disparities that accompanied it, minority students remain disproportionately concentrated in high-poverty areas. Academically, they trail students in more affluent areas, and they fall … Continue reading →

Sarah Cohodes and co-authors write, We study a policy reform that allowed effective charter schools in Boston, Massachusetts to replicate their school models at new locations. Estimates based on randomized admission lotteries show that replication charter schools generate large achievement … Continue reading →

Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey and Ludger Woessmann write, We find that the socioeconomic achievement gap among the 1950s birth cohorts is very large—about 1.0 standard deviations between those in the top and bottom deciles of … Continue reading →

James W. Banks, Leandro S. Carvalho, and Francisco Perez-Arce write, This article studies the causal effect of education on decision-making. In 1972 England raised its minimum school-leaving age from 15 to 16 for students born after September 1, 1957. An … Continue reading →

From a report on a site called Straight Talk, on a study by Dale Farran and Mark Lipsey, who write Our initial results supported the immediate effectiveness of pre-k; children in the program performed better at the end of pre-k … Continue reading →