SPOTLIGHT: Education
Corbis/Andersen Ross - school children raising their hands
Tom Loveless, December 11, 2007
The 2007 Brown Center Report on American Education examines how well American students are learning in math and reading, the enrollment patterns in private and public schools, and whether more time spent learning math increases achievement. Tom Loveless, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, authors this report.
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Education, K-12 Education
PAST EVENT: Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us about Math Achievement
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Washington, DC
Tom Loveless, editor of Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us about Math Achievement (Brookings Press, 2007) and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings, hosted a discussion with the book's authors about school policy and educational research.
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Education
PAST EVENT: Standards-Based Reform
Monday, October 22, 2007
Washington, DC
Is No Child Left Behind enhancing educational opportunities for our most disadvantaged students? The Brown Center hosted an event to discuss this and Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap: Lessons for No Child Left Behind, a Brookings book that examines past efforts to raise educational standards which have done little to help poor children.
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No Child Left Behind, Education, K-12 Education, Teachers