The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth

Past Event

Opportunity in America: Does Education Promote Social Mobility?

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Past Event

The Role of High Schools in Preparing Disadvantaged Students for College

Thursday, May 14, 2009
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

A New Goal for America’s High Schools: College Preparation for All

Ron Haskins and James Kemple, The Future of Children, May 14, 2009

Research and Commentary

Promoting Economic Mobility by Increasing Postsecondary Education

Ron Haskins, Harry Holzer and Robert Lerman, The Pew Charitable Trusts, May 12, 2009

Past Event

The 2006 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are Our Students Learning?

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

The Role of Randomized Evaluations in Making Progress Towards Universal Basic and Secondary Education

Michael Kremer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, November 01, 2005

Research and Commentary

The President’s Education Agenda

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, The Brookings Institution, March 10, 2009

Past Event

Facing the Future: Financing Public Schools

Monday, December 01, 2008
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

How Program Officers at Education Philanthropies View Education

Tom Loveless, ""With the Best of Intentions: Lessons Learned in K-12 Education Philanthropy"" (AEI Conference), April 25, 2005

Past Event

Whole School Reform: Is installing a ""whole school"" reform model the best way to turn around a struggling school?

Wednesday, January 23, 2002
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, D.C.

Research and Commentary

Broken Promises: What the Federal Government Can Do To Improve American Education

Diane Ravitch and Tom Loveless, The Brookings Institution, March 01, 2000

Research and Commentary

Kids Need an Early Start: Universal preschool education may be the best investment Americans can make in our children's education - and our nation's future.

Isabel V. Sawhill, Blueprint, September 01, 1999

Expert

Tom Loveless

Research and Commentary

When Learning Has a Limit

Ben Wildavsky, The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2008

Research and Commentary

About-Face! A Case for Quasi-military Public High Schools

Hugh B. Price, Educational Leadership, May 01, 2008

Research and Commentary

Who Needs Harvard?

Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, October 01, 2004

Research and Commentary

Uncle Sam's Math Books

Tom Loveless, The Christian Science Monitor, January 18, 2000

Expert

Ben Wildavsky

Expert

Paul T. Hill

Expert

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst