Brown Center Chalkboard

The Brown Center Chalkboard is where Brookings scholars and guest authors bring evidence to bear on the pressing issues in U.S. education policy, politics, and practice.

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Education Restraint and seclusion: How policy has failed to curtail the use of dangerous practices in US public schools

Ayanna Platt, Rachel M. Perera

October 8, 2024

Ana, from Mexico, came here as a child, graduated from Rock Creek High School, and is now in community college. "Dreamers" rallied in Portland, Oregon on Nov. 12, 2019, on behalf of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients, as the U. S. Supreme Court seemed ready to allow Donald Trump to end the program.

Education Research shows that DACA benefits both Dreamers and their US-born peers

Briana Ballis

October 7, 2024

Teacher assists student with assignment. Source: Shutterstock

Education When will the US presidential candidates talk about teachers?

Travis J. Bristol

September 30, 2024

Accompanied by family members, children arrive back to school on the first day of the 2024-2025 City Public School year, in the Queens borough of New York City, NY, September 5, 2024.

Education Moving from a ‘parents’ bill of rights’ to a cross-partisan policy agenda to better support parents

Jon Valant

September 24, 2024

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