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The Avenue

How building schools can create good local jobs right now

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Charlie Briganti, is joined by his mother-in-law, Juanita Hurt, and wife, Jenny Briganti as they look at where their townhouse once stood on the San Jacinto River in the aftermath of tropical storm Harvey in Kingwood, Houston, Texas, U.S. September 9, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry

Cities & Regions

Disaster recovery’s essential tool: Data

Amy Liu and Allison Plyer

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

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Education Plus Development

Connecting local champions of girls’ education in West Africa and globally

Allison Anderson and Judith-Ann Walker

Monday, June 13, 2016

A teacher conducts a remote class through a tablet computer at a junior high school attached to Wakayama University Education Faculty in Wakayama Prefecture on March 3rd, 2020, amid an outbreak of the new coronavirus COVID-19 in Japan. The Japanese government requested all elementary, junior high, high schools in the country to close from Monday until the start regular spring break as a part of measures to reduce the risk of infection. However, some schools held several its events. The number of the new coronavirus COVID-19-hit patients has reached to 980 and the death toll has been confirmed 12 far as of March 1st in Japan. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Education Plus Development

COVID-19 outbreak highlights critical gaps in school emergency preparedness

Allison Anderson

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

A young girl reads the day's lessons at a school near Xia Xia, Mozambique on April 26, 2005. Children are taught from an early age on the dangers and how to prevent HIV/AIDS. Some 470,00 AIDS orphans live in Mozambique. This photo is part of an exhibition to be opened in Ottawa, Canada on December 1, 2005 as part of World Aids Day. The photos are the work of Photosensitive, a group of Canadian photographers who donate their time to photograph social issues, and in conjunction with the Canadian Coalition on HIV/AIDS. Picture taken April 26, 2005. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Photosensitive/Andy Clark - RP2DSFHDXNAB

Future Development

Future Development Reads: Surprises, support, and surveys on economics and poverty

Shanta Devarajan

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Flood victims walk along the flooded area in Saptari District, Nepal August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar - RC1807C5F900

Education Plus Development

Building resilience in education to the impact of climate change

Allison Anderson

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

A woman has her face scanned by a facial recognition device that identifies people when they wear masks to gain access to the office of the Chinese electronics manufacturer Hanwang (Hanvon) Technology in Beijing as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), China, March 6, 2020. Picture taken March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Op-Ed

The new urgency of global tech governance

Landry Signé, Mark Esposito, and Sanjeev Khagram

Thursday, September 10, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump stands with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as he delivers remarks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC1BB77F6CD0

Op-Ed

The world America made—and Trump wants to unmake

Friday, September 28, 2018

Brookings Now

Brookings debuts its first documentary-short on medical marijuana in DC

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Employees work on bitcoin mining computers at Bitminer Factory in Florence, Italy, April 6, 2018. Picture taken April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi - RC1154C44E80

Brookings Now

Charts of the Week: Data records, Florida’s teacher tenure reform, and new housing in Washington, D.C.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Workers are pictured, near the exit of the southbound lanes of the double deck State Route 99 highway tunnel, under construction in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Redmond - RC1D90DA79D0

Brookings Now

Charts of the week: Focus on infrastructure

Thursday, May 17, 2018

People stand an island's southern shore.

Brookings Now

Charts of the week: Mother’s lost earnings, the spread of false information, and segregation in older industrial cities

Friday, May 11, 2018

Brookings Now

Meet Frank Rose, new senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program

Monday, May 7, 2018

A group of people hold candles during a vigil at a memorial four days after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare - RC130E871640

The Avenue

There are not ‘two sides’

Thursday, August 8, 2019

African-American Congressional staffers and representatives, including Representative Mark Veasey (D-TX) (L) and Elijah Cummings (D-MD) (C) stage a walk out on the steps of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, in Washington December 11, 2014. REUTERS/Gary Cameron (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - GM1EACC0G0P01

The Avenue

Black-majority cities need more advocates like Elijah Cummings

Thursday, October 17, 2019