Brown Center on Education Policy

The 2017 Brown Center Report on American Education

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: Survey of foreign exchange students

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: Race and school suspensions

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: International assessments

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

A student at Walter H. Dyett High School walks through the hallway in Chicago, Illinois, in this photo taken on October 5, 2012. The bipartisan education reform movement sweeping the nation calls for rating schools by their students' test scores and then taking drastic steps to overhaul the worst performers by firing the teachers, turning the schools over to private management or shutting them down altogether. But in communities across the United States, anger at school closures is rising. REUTERS/Jim Young

The insidiousness of unconscious bias in schools

Seth Gershenson and Thomas S. Dee

Monday, March 20, 2017

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR3CJ15

Are vouchers the solution to America’s school choice debate?

Friday, March 17, 2017

Children play in the playground area 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

Why managed competition is better than a free market for schooling

Douglas N. Harris

Friday, March 17, 2017

A Newark Prep Charter School student listens to math teacher Faiza Sheikh, give a lesson at the school in Newark, New Jersey April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Immigrant teachers play a critical role in American schools

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner Ajit Pai speaks at a FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington February 26, 2015. The FCC is expected Thursday to approve Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposed "net neutrality" rules, regulating broadband providers more heavily than in the past and restricting their power to control download speeds on the web. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

2017: E-Rate’s make or break year

Joshua Bleiberg

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Teacher Jaclyn Kruljac speaks to her students in 5th grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young

Another reason to stop ignoring teacher pensions

Marguerite Roza

Tuesday, March 7, 2017