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

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

There are currently 21,800 toxic release inventory sites (TRIs) operating in the United States, but we have little information on

UNESCO reports that 200 million adolescents were out of school in 2016. This missed opportunity is especially costly because secondary

Pneumonia infection is a leading cause of illness in children worldwide, but we know little about its long-term consequences. Economists

More experienced and better qualified teachers are less likely to teach in schools that serve children from relatively poor families.

The relationship between class size and human capital is one of the most researched and debated questions in education, but

Parents often think about their child’s future success when they consider waiting for them to start school, but a child’s

Evidence suggests that government subsidies typically increase school attendance and at the same time decrease paid work by children. The

Half of all smokers in Germany report that they started using tobacco at the age of 15 or younger, which