Brown Center on Education Policy

Empowering parents to support their children’s development: A conversation about building a ‘parent nation’

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Students in the Mexican state of Chihuahua

The long-run impacts of Mexican-American school desegregation

Francisca M. Antman and Kalena E. Cortes

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Graduates of The City College of New York sit in their seats at their commencement ceremony in Manhattan on May 31, 2019. REUTERS/Gabriela Bhaskar - RC1E2B862140

First-generation college students face unique challenges

Monday, April 25, 2022

A graduation cap sits on a pile of $100 bills.

Responsibility for the funding of college: Where does the public stand?

Natasha Quadlin and Brian Powell

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Children are seen walking to school, on the first day of lifting the indoor mask mandate for DOE schools between K through 12, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S. March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Has federal crisis spending for K-12 schools served its intended objectives?

Kenneth Shores and Matthew P. Steinberg

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Elevated view of students hard at work in a large college computer lab in Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Computer science education policies helping to stimulate broader participation

Michael Hansen and Nicolas Zerbino

Monday, April 11, 2022

Students set up their donated laptop computers on the first day of school at Joplin High School in Joplin

Exploring the state of computer science education amid rapid policy expansion

Michael Hansen and Nicolas Zerbino

Monday, April 11, 2022

Teacher, Jon Samuel with pupils from Primrose Hill Primary School in Salford take part in one Electronic Arts' new educational workshops designed to inspire children to consider Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic careers. Issue date: Wednesday March 23, 2022. Electronic Arts' collaboration with not-for-profit organisation, Digital Schoolhouse (DSH) is a computing workshop aimed at primary-school students, working with video game Knockout City to explore what it takes to teach an AI to play dodgeball. Electronic Arts is also working with education technology company, EVERFI to bring its free cloud-based education course EA Play to Learn to the UK, which targets secondary school pupils and showcases how STEAM skills would be applied in a real-life Game Design Team. Photo credit should read: Ryan Browne/PA Wire.No Use UK. No Use Ireland. No Use Belgium. No Use France. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use China. No Use Norway. No Use Sweden. No Use Denmark. No Use Holland. No Use Australia.

A year ago, school districts got a windfall of pandemic aid. How’s that going?

Marguerite Roza and Katherine Silberstein

Thursday, March 31, 2022

A top-down view of college students working in a common meeting space on campus.

Could revamped grade-forgiveness policies promote student success in college?

Xuan Jiang and Kelly Chen

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Supporters wave their hands in unison as they gather at a rally for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Anaheim, California, U.S., May 24, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake - D1AETFXPDRAB

The case for participatory democracy during educational crisis

Jonathan E. Collins and Julian Bessinger

Thursday, March 24, 2022