The promise of free college (a...
Douglas Harris – The price of college is rising, making college feel out of reach for a rising share of Americans. Families can...
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Hidden entrepreneurs: What cro...
Sifan Liu and Joseph Parilla – Entrepreneurship—and the creative ingenuity often associated with it—is critical to regional...
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Dick Startz – While school was out this summer, the National Academy of Sciences published the over 300-page report, “Sexual...
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Matthew M. Chingos – A central component of federal education law for more than 15 years is that states must report student...
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Susanna Loeb – Early childhood education in the United States is tangle of options—varying in quality, price, structure, and a...
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Andre M. Perry – When demographers and pundits talk about the United States transitioning in the future to a minority-white...
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Dick Startz and Kate Walsh – Today, the federal government provides about 9 percent of the funding for K-12 public schools. The...
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Christian Bodewig – The old world is getting older. The populations of European Union (EU) countries are aging and shrinking....
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Hawah Nabbuye – Uganda has made significant progress in promoting girls’ education in recent years. Policies improving access...
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Susan M. Dynarski – New York City is wrestling with what to do with its exam schools. Students at Stuyvesant, Bronx Science,...
read moreThe 2018 Brown Center Report o...
This year’s Brown Center Report (BCR) on American Education is the 17th issue overall since its beginning in 2000. The 2018 edition...
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Brian Gill – As the latest Brown Center Report on American Education usefully reminds us, the original purpose of public...
read moreA portrait of civics education...
Louis Serino – American schools found themselves immersed in politics this year. A wave of anti-gun violence demonstrations...
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Nora Fyles – When I first began hearing the comment “what about the boys” in discussions about girls’ education I dismissed it...
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Saro Mohammed, Ph.D. – When 80 million Facebook users’ data were found to be in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, users of the...
read moreTalking with children matters:...
“Home is where our story begins…” so the argument that a child’s early experiences at home perpetuate social inequality is...
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We examine the elimination of teacher tenure in Florida to better understand how job protections for teachers affect students. We...
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Susanna Loeb – This report highlights the financial stress facing teachers in regions of fast economic growth and high property...
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New evidence from the National Survey of Children’s Health Nora Gordon, Elizabeth Setren – This report brings data from the...
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Mark Dynarski – It was only 10 years ago that the country adopted a standard for measuring its high school graduation rate. The...
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UPTON SINCLAIR AWARD WINNERS 2017
Dr. Martin Haberman 1932 – 2012
