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Derek Rury – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
A student's class rank has important short and long-term effects on important educational outcomes. Despite our growing understanding of these rank effects, we still do not know how early in a child's academic career they begin. To address this, I use data from the Tennessee STAR project, which randomly assigned over 6,323 kindergarteners to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Classroom Environment, Class Rank
Sandra E. Black; Jeffrey T. Denning; Jesse Rothstein – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity, and has been unable to distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Selection Criteria, Admission Criteria, College Admission