Brown Center Chalkboard

Teacher prep ratings: 2016 edition

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Elementary school children are seen in a classroom on the first day of class in the new school year in Nice, September 3, 2013.

Want to increase childhood literacy rates? Getting kids to school may be a good place to start.

Robert Vagi, Margarita Pivovarova, Clarin Collins, and Terri Clark

Friday, December 2, 2016

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (L) stands with Betsy DeVos after their meeting at the main clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey

The prospects of DeVos’ school choice agenda as Ed Secretary

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Students take their seats for the diploma ceremony at the John F. Kennedy School of Government during the 361st Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge

The educational rift in the 2016 election

William A. Galston and Clara Hendrickson

Monday, November 28, 2016

A "Tom Turkey" float makes its way down 6th avenue during the 89th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the Manhattan borough of New York

An education thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Tartan Rescue team CHIMP (CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform) robot falls down while trying to go through a doorway on a simulated disaster-response course on day one of the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Robotics Challenge finals in Pomona, California

ARPA-Ed: What would it take?

Saro Mohammed, Ph.D.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

U.S. Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) (L-R), Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) depart following their weekly Republican caucus lunch meeting

What unified government and electoral politics might mean for education policy

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Monday, November 14, 2016

First grader Adam Kotzian (C) does a spelling drill with classmates in his classroom at Eagleview Elementary school in Thornton, Colorado March 31, 2010. Adam and his parents are achondroplastic dwarfs but his sister Avery is not. Like many people with dwarfism, the Kotzians have worked hard to overcome social and physical barriers to lead full and normal lives which includes working with non-profit group, Little People of America (LPA), to stop people treating them like a circus act.
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The 2016 election as a ‘Sputnik’ moment for character education

Friday, November 11, 2016

Students of the Archbishops student seminary St. Michael Traunstein

The US charter school movement should learn from England’s academy system

Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd

Monday, November 7, 2016

A woman pushes a baby stroller along the Charles River past the Boston skyline in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States June 10, 2015. Outdoor scenes in Boston show local residents enjoying balmy weather amid lush greenery as the summer solstice approaches on 21 June. The very same locations suffered heavy snowstorms last winter, with snow ploughs, skiers and snowboarders battling the drifts. Boston got 275.8 cm of snow over the winter, the most since 1872, when records began. A few months after the snowstorms, Brian Snyder revisited the same places and shot pictures at exactly the same locations. REUTERS/Brian Snyder TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY PICTURE 16 OF 30 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "WINTER FREEZE, SUMMER SOLSTICE" SEARCH "BRIAN SOLSTICE" FOR ALL IMAGES - RTX1H856

District and charter school enrollments are not equal—but Boston could become a national model for education equity and access

Friday, November 4, 2016

A teacher conducts a German lesson for children of a welcome class for immigrants at the Katharina-Heinroth primary school in Berlin, Germany, September 11, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - RTSM05

School turnaround under ESSA: Progress, but not a silver bullet

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Monday, October 31, 2016

Head of housekeeping Linda Ray cleans a light in the drawing room of the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh, Scotland January 31, 2012. Britannia will reopen to the public on February 1 following planned maintenance, and will accompany the Royal Barge during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on June 3 in London. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN - Tags: TRAVEL ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY ROYALS) - RTR2X431

Engaging parents with school starts at work

Ariela Rozman, Timothy Daly, and David Keeling

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Children read state-issued textbooks from the "Bicentennial Collection" at a classroom of the Eleazar Lopez Contreras school in Caracas May 23, 2014. Venezuela's government has published dozens of new textbooks that glorify late president Hugo Chavez and belittle his adversaries, infuriating opposition critics who call them part of a campaign to indoctrinate school children. Originally introduced in mid-2011, the textbooks have become a hot-button issue again amid a broad state-run review of the education system that some fear could boost the ruling Socialist Party's imprint on classrooms. Picture taken on May 23, 2014. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (VENEZUELA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS) - RTR3RVIS

Instruction, culture, and curriculum in E.D. Hirsch, Jr.’s “Why Knowledge Matters”

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Guests take pictures of the Every Student Succeeds Act after U.S. President Barack Obama signed it into law in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, December 10, 2015.

What you need to know about ED’s proposed rule on Title I supplement-not-supplant

Friday, October 21, 2016

Fiona Grant (L) and Nicola Cronin,both aged 18, from Manchester High School for Girls

The gift of time: The opportunity and benefit of early FAFSA filing

Lindsay C. Page, Ben Castleman, and Katharine Meyer

Thursday, October 20, 2016