Center on Children and Families

A student walks at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, June 23, 2016. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, upheld the practice of considering race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas affirmative action program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students. REUTERS/Jon Herskovitz - TM3EC6N102S01

Thinking “beyond the box”: The use of criminal records in college admissions

Judith Scott-Clayton

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Dr. Ben Robins, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, mediates while Harrison, 5, who is autistic, plays with Kaspar, a child-sized humanoid robot designed to interact and help improve the lives of children with autism, in Stevenage, Britain January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Matthew Stockman - RC1EC1C65930

Race, poverty, and interpreting overrepresentation in special education

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

April DeBoer (L) puts a shoe on daughter Rylee while her partner Jayne Rowse talks with son Jacob in their home in Hazel Park, Michigan April 19, 2015. DeBoer and Rowse, parents caring for four adopted children and a foster child, say they lead an ordinary life but now find themselves on the frontlines of the same-sex marriage debate as petitioners in one of several same-sex marriage cases that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court next week. Picture taken April 19, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
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Care and connections: Bridging relational gaps for foster youths

Ramona Denby-Brinson, Efren Gomez, and Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Children listen to their teacher on the first day of the new school year in a primary school in Nice, France, September 4, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard - RC14C74B21D0

Students return to school with significantly lower achievement levels

David M. Quinn and Morgan Polikoff

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Keeping our PROMESA: What the U.S. can do about Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Monday, September 11, 2017

Angie Granpe and her son Eitan travel on a Greyhound bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Rural dreams: Upward mobility in America’s countryside

Eleanor Krause and Richard V. Reeves

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Mervin Sealy from Hickory, North Carolina, takes part in a protest rally outside the Capitol Building in Washington, October 5, 2011. Demonstrators were demanding that Congress create jobs, not make budget cuts during the protest. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2S9AW

The century gap: Low economic mobility for black men, 150 years after the Civil War

Richard V. Reeves and Edward Rodrigue

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Students attend a lecture in the auditorium of the university.

For better learning in college lectures, lay down the laptop and pick up a pen

Susan M. Dynarski

Thursday, August 10, 2017

A general view shows Texas A&M University campus, where white nationalist leader Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute is due to speak at an event not sanctioned by the school, in College Station, Texas, U.S. December 6, 2016. REUTERS/Spencer Selvidge - RTSUZCC

Winners and losers in President Trump’s student loan plan

Jason Delisle and Alexander Holt

Thursday, August 3, 2017

People walk out of South Pasadena High School in South Pasadena

Chronic absenteeism: An old problem in search of new answers

Brian A. Jacob and Kelly Lovett

Thursday, July 27, 2017