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Reuters/Jason Reed - U.S. President Obama meets with elementary school children in Silver Spring.

Save to My Portfolio Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, Tom Loveless, Jay Greene, W. Bentley MacLeod , Thomas Nechyba , Paul Peterson, Meredith Rosenthal and Michelle Croft, February 02, 2010

School choice exercises a powerful pull on parents of school children. The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings and a task force composed of leading education policy experts propose expanding school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality. Parents should be afforded the maximum degree of choice, provided with valid information on the performance of the education programs that are available, and have their preferences for education programs reflected in the funding of those programs. Read More

Education, School Choice, K-12 Education, Charter Schools, School Vouchers

Education


Reuters/Jonathan Ernst - A women and children read the newspaper in Washington.

Save to My Portfolio Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough

Darrell M. West, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and E.J. Dionne, Jr., December 02, 2009

News coverage is important to every policy area. This is especially the case with education because only a third of American adults currently have a child in elementary or secondary school. Yet despite the importance of media coverage for public understanding of education, news reporting on schools is scant. As Darrell West, Russ Whitehurst, and E. J. Dionne note, there is virtually no national coverage of education. During the first nine months of 2009, only 1.4 percent of national news coverage from television, newspapers, news Web sites, and radio dealt with education. Read More

Media & Journalism, Education, Competitiveness, U.S. Department of Education

Education


Reuters/Eric Gaillard - Junior high school students follow a geography lesson taught with a digital touch blackboard.

Save to My Portfolio Faith in Common Standards Not Enough

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and Michelle Croft, October 29, 2009

Russ Whitehurst and Michelle Croft find no association between state scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and ratings of the quality of state standards. Moreover, their analyses suggest that the creation of common standards will have little impact on our future in and of itself. Read More

Education, K-12 Education, U.S. Department of Education

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Education Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, Tom Loveless, Jay Greene, W. Bentley MacLeod , Thomas Nechyba , Paul Peterson, Meredith Rosenthal , Michelle Croft, February 02, 2010

Education Research to Practice: The Future of the Regional Educational Labs

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, January 2010

Education Is Head Start Working for American Students?

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, January 21, 2010

Media & Journalism Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough

Darrell M. West, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, E.J. Dionne, Jr., December 02, 2009

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The economic and political well-being of any society requires a well-educated citizenry. Brookings’s work extends beyond the K-12 bookends to include pre-school interventions, higher education and the challenges of education in developing countries.

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As president of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, Domenico Lombardi’s work at Brookings focuses on the international financial crisis and the reform of the IMF and the World Bank. He is an expert on G-20 and G8 Summits.

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Mark McClellan works on promoting high-quality, innovative and affordable health care. Once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. McClellan now directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.

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Brookings is committed to producing innovative policy solutions to our nation’s most difficult challenges. The country may face no more important domestic policy challenge than the much-needed reform of our health care system. Through an institution-wide effort, Brookings delivers new ideas and offers policy solutions to improve health care both at home and globally.

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The Center on Children and Families studies policies on the well-being of America's children and their parents and seeks a more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the United States.

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The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement monitors displacement problems worldwide, works with governments, regional bodies, international organizations and civil society to create more effective policies and institutional arrangements for Internally Displaed Persons.

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