Center on Children and Families

Students exit a bus as they arrive at Venice High School in Los Angeles, California

60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, how racially balanced are America’s public schools?

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, Richard V. Reeves, Nathan Joo, and Edward Rodrigue

Monday, November 20, 2017

Map of racial imbalances in U.S. public schools

Racial imbalances in U.S. public schools

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, and Nathan Joo

Monday, November 20, 2017

http://onwardstate.com/2013/09/16/the-best-and-worst-places-to-propose-at-penn-state/

College friends keep getting married? It’s bad news for your travel budget… and inequality

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Friday, November 17, 2017

A teacher helps his student with a physics experiment at the Oxford International College in Changzhou, Jiangsu province January 10, 2013. The website for a private school in Changzhou, one of China's smaller cities, features blue blazers and plaid skirts, music classes and an ivy-clad brick doorway -- all the trappings of the British school system designed to appeal to wealthy Chinese parents. In choosing a smaller city, Oxford International College - no relation to the British university - is tapping into a growing market of upwardly-mobile Chinese willing to pay as much as 260,000 yuan ($41,700) a year for a Western-style education and a ticket to college overseas for their children. Picture taken January 10, 2013. To match Feature CHINA-SCHOOLS REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GM1E91E0E6Y01

The importance of a diverse teaching force

Thursday, November 16, 2017

A woman walks past a "help wanted" sign on a restaurant in Los Angeles, California.

More work, more self-sufficiency

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

The U.S. Commerce Department?s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home for a family of four can generate as much energy as it uses in a year is seen in this undated photo taken in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The U.S. Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility -- also known as the net-zero lab -- is built to fit into an ordinary residential neighborhood without the high environmental footprint. REUTERS/Deborah Zabarenko (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT) - TM3E89E19FQ02

Are affluent Americans willing to pay a little for a fairer society? A test case in Chicago

Alaina J. Harkness and Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, November 9, 2017

B.K. Bruce Elementary School fourth graders take a stretch break during music class after the the school was closed for two weeks in the aftermath of tropical storm Harvey in Houston, Texas, U.S. September 12, 2017. The school reopened on Monday, September, 11, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry - RC18E1D35000

New evidence that students’ beliefs about their brains drive learning

Susana Claro and Susanna Loeb

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Valerie Marchesi, dressed as a package of birth control pills, waits for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to be publicly endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund in Hooksett, New Hampshire, January 10, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - GF20000090629

Note to GOP: To improve women’s economic opportunities, don’t cut family planning – expand it

Eleanor Krause, Katherine Guyot, and Isabel V. Sawhill

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Samantha Pelletier shows off the voting sticker that was placed on her pregnant belly outside of the old Town Hall during the U.S. presidential election in Bristol, New Hampshire November 6, 2012. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E8B61PKV01

Let’s talk about the GOP proposal to give a fetus a tax benefit

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Friday, November 3, 2017

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan leaves a meeting of the Republican conference ahead of the release of their tax reform plan on Capitol Hill.

Corporations will love the GOP tax plan. Should everyone else?

Isabel V. Sawhill

Friday, November 3, 2017