David Figlio
David Figlio is Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Published Articles & Media
How private-school choice programs boost competition and benefit public-school students
New evidence on the debate over disproportionality
Policies and practices that might be successful overall could actually help one group of students while harming another.
There is some evidence that Florida’s “game changing” tenure reform law of 2011 slightly increased student test achievement in math and reading, and that the gains were more prominent for the lowest-performing students.
We present the first evidence on the effects of a large influx of refugees or disaster-fleeing migrants on the educational outcomes of incumbent students.
Bachelor’s degree completion gaps make it much harder to achieve a teaching force whose diversity mirrors that of the student population.
Policymakers should pay much closer attention to the practices of individual schools rather than concentrating exclusively on policies and interventions typically enacted at the district level.
Changing school start times could boost learning at a very low cost.
Universities aspire to excellence in both teaching and research, but does scholarly excellence come at a cost in terms of teaching quality?
