Center on Children and Families

Automated Guided Vehicles carry the chassis for 2018 Chevrolet Sonic vehicles on the assembly line at General Motors Orion Assembly in Lake Orion, Michigan, U.S., March 19, 2018. Photo taken March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook - RC1ED1C67090

Meeting the automation challenge to the middle class and the American project

Robert E. Litan

Thursday, June 21, 2018

A handful of students attend class as other student picketers walk the hallways at Madrid's Complutense University during a general teachers' strike against educational cuts imposed by the Spanish government May 22, 2012. Spanish teachers went on strike on Tuesday to protest against cuts in education spending that labour unions say will put 100,000 substitute teachers out of work but that the government says are needed to tackle the euro zone debt crisis. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST) - GM1E85M1LOP01

What accounts for gaps in student loan default, and what happens after

Judith Scott-Clayton

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Officials unveil the newly constructed Sandy Hook Elementary School, including this second grade classroom, built to replace the building torn down after a gunman shot dead 20 young children and six educators in a 2012 massacre, in Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin - D1BETSKLLIAA

What works vs. What we can evaluate

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Graduates walking towards future

Gown towns: A case study of Say Yes to Education

Richard V. Reeves, Katherine Guyot, and Edward Rodrigue

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Second grade student Brylee Budde counts the money earned from selling eggs 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) - TM4E92G12JB01

New evidence on the benefits of small group math instruction for young children

Robin Jacob and Brian A. Jacob

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Students sit in the library of the university KU Leuven "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven" in Leuven, Belgium, June 8, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo - S1AETJUWTSAE

Yes, there really is a tax break for upper-income graduate students and Congress won’t let it expire

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Pupils during class at the elementary school in Helsinki, Finland, February 4, 2016. Picture taken February 4, 2016. Lehtikuva/Antti Aimo-Koivisto via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. - RC1237807E30

What can NAEP tell us about how much US children are learning?

Matthew M. Chingos

Thursday, May 24, 2018

A schoolgirl studies during a morning class in a primary classroom at la Providence school in Vincennes, near Paris, May 13, 2008. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE) - PM1E45D10RZ01

Did tenure reform in Florida affect student test scores?

Celeste Carruthers, David Figlio, and Tim Sass

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Teachers rally outside the state Capitol on the second day of a teacher walkout to demand higher pay and more funding for education in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., April 3, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford - RC1DB35DAD60

The financial stress of teaching in regions of fast economic growth

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Olivia Caceras holds one of her children as she and other marchers prepare to start a 140-mile walk to the Mexican border, in solidarity with hundreds of hopeful asylum seekers who are currently traveling northbound in a caravan through Mexico, from central Los Angeles, California, U.S. April 22, 2018. REUTERS/David McNew - RC1E7A36A840

Defining the middle class: Cash, credentials, or culture?

Richard V. Reeves, Katherine Guyot, and Eleanor Krause

Monday, May 7, 2018