Roughly one-quarter of all charter school students in the U.S. attend a school managed by a for-profit management organization. Limitations in the scope of previous research prevent researchers from understanding whether ...

The present work intends to deepen our understanding of teacher absenteeism and student achievement. The hypothesis is that teacher absenteeism is a strong predictor of student test scores, and that teacher absenteeism has ...

This paper investigates the relationship between private competition and student achievement and whether countries with higher shares of privately-managed schools have better standardized test scores. It uses the cross-country ...

The Pakistani public-school system is struggling and has fallen substantially behind other developing countries in enrollment rates. The Government of Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province, initiated a program to improve ...

“Title I” refers to the nation’s largest federal budgetary package to support economically-disadvantaged students. Research around it has been limited, though the consensus across decades suggests that reassessment of its ...

This paper is an examination into the policies utilized by Federal and California state officials to support low-income individuals and vulnerable populations. I examine the efficacy of these various programs and how they ...