An Annenberg study using five cohorts of Massachusetts ninth graders to estimate how individual high schools shape students' college outcomes and adult earnings, focusing on students from low-income families.

The study examines summer Algebra 1 readiness camps in five Rhode Island districts, launched to help prepare rising 9th graders for the state’s new high school math requirements.

A study of a well-resourced, integrated suburban high school showing how racial inequality persists despite good intentions.

Shares adaptable practices for assessing Head Start children virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic, when preschool closures limited in-person assessment.

Provides a framework for conducting rigorous causal research on the effectiveness of teacher education practices, outlining the key design and measurement challenges.

Finds that state teacher accountability reforms reduced the number of newly licensed teacher candidates and increased unfilled positions, especially in hard-to-staff schools.

Summarizes the book Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making and introduces a symposium of responses from philosophers of education.

Uses narrowly passed and failed California bond measures to show that school facilities funding reduces achievement gaps for low-income students.

Reviews recent rigorous studies of STEM instructional improvement programs to identify what makes teacher professional development and curriculum reforms work.

Examines how health and early childhood education can intersect to improve school readiness for children in poverty or with chronic health conditions.

Reports a randomized trial of a summer text-messaging program helping parents support literacy at home for first through fourth graders.

Examines how socioeconomic disadvantage and child health work together over the life course to shape children's development and reproduce inequality.

Uses New York City panel data to show that teachers switching grades or subjects within a school hurt student achievement, at about a third the effect of a new teacher.

Reports a randomized experiment offering an online summer mathematics program, with or without a free laptop, to low-income students in grades three through nine.

Examines how the particular knowledge and skills English language arts teachers impart contribute to students' longer-term success across subjects.

Uses a nationally representative kindergarten cohort to examine how ADHD severity shapes the relationship between diagnosis and later academic achievement.

Investigates whether some teachers are differentially effective with English language learners, who must learn language and content simultaneously.

Documents the scale of student absenteeism and class skipping and argues that schools must actively engage students to increase attendance.

Examines whether boys' early behavior problems predict their lower rates of high school graduation, college completion, and years of schooling in adulthood.

Explores humility as a learning virtue in the Confucian tradition and its implications for how students approach knowledge and effort.

Uses nationally representative data on 6,000 children to compare quality across formal and informal early childhood settings and differences in skills at age five.

Offers a framework of educational goods and values to help decision makers and researchers articulate goals and trade-offs in education.

Uses two quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effects of integrating two hours of individualized tutorials into an extended day at MATCH Charter Public High School.

Compares how European-American and Chinese kindergartners perceive and resolve the conflict between learning and play.

Tests cumulative inequality theory by examining how child health and family resources together shape academic achievement over development.