Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "primary education"
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Gold Standards?: State Standards Reform and Student Achievement
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012)Proponents of the recent and widely adopted Common Core State Standards argue that high quality curricular standards are critical to students’ educational success. Little clear evidence exists, however, linking the quality ... -
How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star
(MIT Press, 2011)In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This article evaluates the long-term impacts of STAR by linking ...