Brown Center on Education Policy

Four-year old Catherine Mawi (top) plays with three-year old Lillian Barnette (bottom) at the Frederick, Maryland Head Start facility March 13, 2012. When officials in Frederick County, Maryland voted last year to stop paying for the local Head Start preschool program, they pointed to a nearly $12 million projected budget shortfall as proof that the mostly rural county could no longer afford it. Picture taken March 13, 2012. To match story USA-EDUCATION/HEADSTART REUTERS/Gary Cameron (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS) - GM1E83F0CI701

It’s time to move beyond the word gap

Douglas E. Sperry, Linda L. Sperry, and Peggy J. Miller

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Children play with Microsoft's "Schlaumaeuse" education software that runs on a Windows 8 operated tablet computer during the program's presentation in Berlin

Why the recent Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data ‘breach’ matters for students

Saro Mohammed, Ph.D.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Apprentices Ryan Hickman (R) and Tom Tarr work with a sand mould of a car engine ready for casting at GW cast in Bridgnorth

How history explains America’s struggle to revive apprenticeships

Greg Ferenstein

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Children participate in a computing class at an Innova school in the outskirts of Lima

The need for lifetime learning during an era of economic disruption

Darrell M. West

Monday, May 21, 2018

Pre-schoolers draw together

School funds should follow students, not protect institutions

Robin Lake and Paul T. Hill

Thursday, May 17, 2018

The campus of the University of Pennsyvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Who wins and who loses when states earmark lottery revenue for higher education?

Elizabeth Bell, Wesley Wehde, and Madeleine Stucky

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Students walk through the hallway during a class change at E.E. Smith High School.

Racial disparities in school discipline

Jon Valant and Fred Dews

Friday, May 4, 2018

Teacher Kristi Rahn (C) helps to first grade students during a computer lesson in school in Tallinn September 25, 2012. Estonian Tiger Leap Foundation has launched a program called "ProgeTiiger" where Estonian students will be introduced to computer programming and creating web and mobile applications. According to representatives from the foundation, the program will start with students in the first grade, which starts around the age of 7, and will continue through a student's final years of public school, around age 15. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins (ESTONIA - Tags: EDUCATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E89P1PG901

Charter school growth puts fiscal pressure on traditional public schools

John Singleton and Helen F. Ladd

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

mature students working in a computer laboratory

Race and gender biases appear in online education

Rachel Baker, Thomas S. Dee, Brent Evans, and June John

Friday, April 27, 2018

First grade students of "Treinta y Tres Orientales" elementary school in Villa Garcia, a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Montevideo, use their XO laptop computers in their classroom August 22, 2008. The Uruguay government is implementing the Ceibal project, with the goal of providing one free XO laptop to every public school student in the country. Picture taken August 22, 2008. REUTERS/Andres Stapff (URUGUAY) - RTX8CEG

How our education system undermines gender equity

Monday, April 23, 2018