Center on Children and Families

Students eat lunch in the cafeteria at a middle school in San Diego, California March 7, 2011. San Diego's Healthy Works Project received the country's largest grant, 16 million dollars, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 to help combat wellness and the obesity epidemic. Picture taken March 7, 2011. To match Special Report USA-FOODLOBBY/ REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E84R1FJZ01

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

Matthew M. Chingos

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Teacher Jenna Rosenberg speaks to her first 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 (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9320AA101

Accountability for early education–a different approach and some positive signs

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Employees sort packages at the Amazon distribution center warehouse in Saran, near Orleans, France, November 22, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer - RC184ABAB660

A little respect: Can we restore relational equality?

Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Trainee math teacher Mia Shaw from the Teach for America program teaches a class at George Washington Carver Middle School in Los Angeles, California July 18, 2012. This fall Teach for America will send a record 10,000 teachers into classrooms from New York to California. The nonprofit boasts $300 million in assets and collects tens of millions a year in public funds, even at a time of steep cuts to education budgets. But critics, including a handful of disillusioned alumni, contend that policies promoted by TFA-trained reformers threaten to damage the very schools they once set out to save. They argue, too, that TFA's relentless push to expand has betrayed its founding ideals. Picture taken July 18, 2012. To match Feature USA-EDUCATION/TEACHFORAMERICA REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION SOCIETY POVERTY WEALTH) - RTR36W0M

School policies and the success of advantaged and disadvantaged students

David Figlio and Krzysztof Karbownik

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Iana Williams, 8, reads a book

Can schools commit malpractice? It depends.

Thursday, July 26, 2018

A student take a test in the hallway outside the classroom

Evidence on New York City and Boston exam schools

Susan M. Dynarski

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Paola Garcia reads a book with her three-year-old daughter Emily at Action for Boston Community Development's (ABCD) Head Start program in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts March 5, 2013. Garcia attends classes to learn English as a second language while her daughter attends Head Start, which provides early learning for children. According to ABCD, 95 percent of the money for the Head Start program comes from the federal government, funding that faces cuts under sequestration. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GM1E9360GQG01

Does state pre-K improve children’s achievement?

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst

Thursday, July 12, 2018

A student exits a bus as he arrives at Venice High School in Los Angeles, California December 16, 2015. Classes resume today in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the United States, after they were closed on Tuesday after officials reported receiving an unspecified threat to the district and ordered a search of all schools in the city. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn - GF10000267926

Do school secessions worsen racial segregation? It’s complicated

Richard V. Reeves and Nathan Joo

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

A group of students studies on the campus of San Francisco State University

FAFSA completion rates matter: But mind the data

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Thursday, July 5, 2018

School Classroom

The challenges of curriculum materials as a reform lever

Morgan Polikoff

Thursday, June 28, 2018