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A Governance Studies and Brown Center on Education Policy Event

2007 Brown Center Report on American Education

Education

Event Summary

On December 11, the Brown Center on Education Policy released the seventh edition of its "Brown Center Report on American Education." The 2007 report will examined 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 and author of the report, discussed the results.

Event Information

When

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
10:00 AM to 11:30 am

Where

Saul/Zilkha Room
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Directions

Event Materials

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

The Brown Center Report on American Education is an annual report that analyzes the state of American education using the latest measures of student learning, uncovers and explains important trends in achievement test scores, and evaluates the success of educational reforms.

Transcript

TOM LOVELESS:  The third section has something to do with policy. We take a question up that has to do with policy relevance. And, as Pietro mentioned, this year it’s on "time," and the correlation between time and achievement which, oddly enough, using international data in the past 50 years, researchers have not been able to find any relationship between the amount of time the kids actually study math in classrooms and then their subsequent achievement -- on a national basis.

We came up with a different finding that’s a little more positive and a little more intuitive, as opposed to counterintuitive.  So let’s get started.

Participants

Introduction

Pietro S. Nivola

Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Featured Speaker

Tom Loveless

Director, Brown Center on Education Policy

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