Student Loans—Extra Cash per Semester Doesn’t Translate to Better Results
Student loans balances exceed 1.6 trillion dollars, and the amount keeps growing. Why do students borrow, and when they borrow,
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How Do Peers Impact Learning—Virtual Edition?
As education has moved increasingly online, it’s important to understand how peers can help one another learn in virtual settings.
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Changing Teacher Pension Plans Is a Challenge, Especially if You Want High-Quality Teachers
Nationally, employer costs for public teacher pensions have increased from $530, or 4.8 percent of per-pupil operating expenditures in 2004,
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Better Educator Incentives Can Improve Primary School Completion
Primary school completion rates remain low, and educator accountability remains weak in many low-income countries. The accountability pressures that do
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How Do “High-Stakes” Grades Affect Student Behavior?
Grades, including evaluations by teachers, standardized test scores, and exam results, can affect student behavior for at least three reasons.
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When Your New School Comes with an Extra Challenge: Traffic Pollution
More than 6.4 million children attend public school within 250 meters of a major roadway, and nearly one in five
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Do Children Learn Better in Mixed-Age Classrooms?
Multigrading, the practice of mixing children of different ages in the same classroom, occurs in about one-third of school classes
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Public Works Programs in India—A Path to Stability or a Low-Wage Track?
Public works programs have become a popular tool for poverty reduction in low-income countries. There are approximately 90 public works
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Recess, Lead, and Mercury—TRIs Impact Kids and School Rankings
There are currently 21,800 toxic release inventory sites (TRIs) operating in the United States, but we have little information on
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Job Experience with Skills Certification Improves Employment for High School Dropouts
On average, across OECD countries, one in seven young people (15–29 years old) is neither employed nor pursuing education or
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