Smaller schools, smaller class sizes, magnet schools, superstar superintendents, longer school days and years, innovation zones—all these and more have been shown to improve educational outcomes for individual schools or districts. But none has proven to be routinely successful when reproduced on a larger scale. Finding innovations that can be replicated cost-effectively and without sacrificing other programs is a major challenge for the American educational system.
About the Author
Eric Bettinger is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Conley-DeAngelis Family Professor in the School of Education at Stanford University. He is research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include the economics of education; student success in college; and the effects of school choice on both academic and nonacademic outcomes.
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