Brown Center on Education Policy

A student take a test in the hallway outside the classroom

Shaming students is keeping schools from teaching them

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Nine-year old Micah Brown looks over the King program as he sits along a window during the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 16, 2017. REUTERS/Tami Chappell - RC1EB13B3AB0

Equal opportunity in American education

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Betsy DeVos testifies before the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee confirmation hearing to be next Secretary of Education on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC1D5B7B0CF0

Congress in 2019: Democrat-led House oversight is likely in store for DeVos

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Saturday, December 29, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump turns to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (L) during his remarks to reporters before a workforce apprenticeship discussion at Trump's golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey U.S. August 11, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC164E2DD650

School Safety Commission’s report uses tenuous logic to walk back guidance on school discipline

Jon Valant and Michael Hansen

Friday, December 21, 2018

Students throwing graduation caps up in the air

The year in education: Top Chalkboard posts of 2018

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Teacher Audrey Benes speaks to her kindergarten class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois

Mountain West states face growing teacher diversity gaps

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Students arrive for school in Mahnomen school district in Mahnomen, Minnesota

Want more diverse teachers in more places? Start with diverse principals

Friday, December 14, 2018

Youths take part in a National School Walkout anti-gun march in New York City, New York, U.S., April 20, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC129FFE5BA0

To make schools safer, focus on community—not guns

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Students walk in the courtyard of the Law school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., September 20, 2018. Picture taken on September 20, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook - RC12527F9EE0

College promise programs may need time to mature for full impact

Jennifer Iriti and Lindsay C. Page

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard speaks with Disney II Elementary School principal Bogdana Chkoumbova in Chicago, September 26, 2011. Disney is one of 13 Chicago public schools which have decided to be early adopters of a plan to add 90 minutes to the school day, a scheme pushed hard by new Mayor Rahm Emanuel who says it is necessary to improve the city's K-12 education. Picture taken September 26, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E79T06IA01

School leadership: An untapped opportunity to draw young people of color into teaching

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Monday, November 26, 2018