David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

inverted-U curve, see Augusto Di
Castelnuovo et al., “Alcohol Dosing and
Total Mortality in Men and Women: An
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Jesse Levin’s research on class size
and achievement is “For Whom the
Reductions Count: A Quantile
Regression Analysis of Class Size and
Peer Effects on Scholastic
Achievement,” Empirical Economics 26
(2001): 221. The obsession with small
class sizes has real consequences. The
one thing that all educational researchers
agree about is that teacher quality