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SUBMITTER: Quarles CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7363455 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Quarles Christopher L CL Budak Ceren C Resnick Paul P
Science advances 20200715 29
Hundreds of thousands of students drop out of school each year in the United States, despite billions of dollars of funding and myriad educational reforms. Existing research tends to look at the effect of easily measurable student characteristics. However, a vast number of harder-to-measure student traits, skills, and resources affect educational success. We present a conceptual framework for the cumulative effect of all factors, which we call student capital. We develop a method for estimating ...[more]