Getting an Honest Answer: Clickers in the Classroom
Asking students to raise their hands is a time-honored feedback mechanism in education.
Asking students to raise their hands is a time-honored feedback mechanism in education.
An interview with Professor Robert D. Putnam about his new book "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis."
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized.
Recent empirical work has demonstrated the importance both of educational peer effects and of various factors that affect college choices.
Using survey data from the Promise Academy in the Harlem Children’s Zone, we estimate the effects of high-performing charter schools on human capital, risky behaviors, and health outcomes.
Today in the United States, producing higher scores on standardized tests of academic skills is the dominant goal of teacher professional development, the primary gauge of teacher productivity, and th
This paper brings a new perspective to the analysis of the Mariel supply shock, revisiting the question and the data armed with the accumulated insights from the vast literature on the economic impact
This paper examines the evolution of immigrant earnings in the United States between 1970 and 2010.
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of their neighborhood.
Americans have generally wanted much the same things taught in their public schools. Elementary students should learn three “R’s”—reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic.
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