Brown Center on Education Policy

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

A troubling contagion: The rural 4-day school week

Paul T. Hill and Georgia Heyward

Friday, March 3, 2017

Armando Dominguez teaches 7th and 8th grade students as they participate in the bilingual, project lead the way class at Vieau Middle School in Milwaukee Wisconsin

Educational equality and excellence will drive a stronger economy

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Students arrive at the Walton Rural Life Center Elementary School, in Walton, Kansas, January 18, 2013. Students at the school do farm chores at the beginning of each school day. The Walton Rural Life Center - a kindergarten through fourth grade charter school in rural Kansas - uses agriculture to teach students about math, science, economics. REUTERS/Jeff Tuttle (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) - RTR3DVPU

Charter schools and federal power: What’s next for education policy?

Elizabeth Mann Levesque, Jon Valant, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

A gender-neutral bathroom is seen at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California September 30, 2014. The University of California will designate gender-neutral restrooms at its 10 campuses to accommodate transgender students, in a move that may be the first of its kind for a system of colleges in the United States. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

After Trump rescinds Title IX guidance, what’s next for transgender students’ rights?

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

A professor tries to stop striking students from disrupting her class at Complutense University on the second day of a 48-hour student strike to protest against rising fees and educational cuts in Madrid March 27, 2014.

The problem with measuring effects of delinquent peers in education

Thomas Ahn and Justin Trogdon

Friday, February 24, 2017

Students listen to their professor at a community college.

Has the time come for personalized higher education?

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos addresses Education Department staff on her first day on the job in Washington, U.S., February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX306ZX

Rifts among congressional, state Republicans over school choice

Molly E. Reynolds and Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

A student walks past the entrance of Brigham Young University in Provo

Rock-bottom social mobility score surprises BYU community

Friday, February 17, 2017

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Repealing ESSA rule raises implementation, transparency concerns

Lauren Bauer and Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Students at Rose Hill Elementary School (L-R) Alexis Reubenstein, Delmy Roman-Sanchez and Jesus Anguiano participate in a running race during physical education class in Commerce City, Colorado May 1, 2012.

A new way to measure the benefits of school recess

Elizabeth Cushing

Monday, February 13, 2017