Education

A hallway stands empty during a news conference at New Bridges Elementary School, ahead of schools reopening, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York, U.S., August 19, 2020. Jeenah Moon/Pool via REUTERS

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What drives increases in state funding for education?

Christopher Candelaria, Shelby McNeill, and Kenneth Shores

Thursday, August 11, 2022

A Newark Prep Charter School student listens to math teacher Faiza Sheikh, give a lesson at the school in Newark, New Jersey April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION)

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It matters now more than ever: What new developments say about Teacher Diversity and Student Success

Michael Hansen, Constance A. Lindsay, and Seth Gershenson

Monday, August 1, 2022

Education Plus Development

Riding to school: How bicycles are changing education for girls in rural Africa

Damaris Seleina Parsitau and Joel Kamoko

Thursday, July 21, 2022

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Education Plus Development

Radical inclusion means teaching children in a language they understand 

Chernor Bah

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Reports

Report

2 years after the National Education Policy passage: What are social media users in India saying?

Lauren Ziegler, Ruchika Bhatia, and Rebecca Winthrop

Monday, July 11, 2022

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Report

Transforming education systems: Why, what, and how

Rebecca Winthrop and David Sengeh

Thursday, June 23, 2022

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are reflected in the plexiglass protecting a TV camera operator from coronavirus as they participate in their second 2020 presidential campaign debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

Report

Education policy through executive action: Comparing the Biden and Trump presidencies

Kenneth K. Wong and Coral Flanagan

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Who You Know: Relationships, networks and social capital in boosting educational opportunity for young Americans

Richard V. Reeves and Beyond Deng

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Regulatory Policy

Federal student lending rules: A window into negotiated rulemaking

Connor Raso

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Blog Posts

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Future Development

Summer readings on cash transfers and social protection

Ugo Gentilini

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Education Plus Development

To meet the changing needs of small school districts, superintendents harness community school strategies

Reuben Jacobson

Monday, July 18, 2022

Students arrive 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)

Brown Center Chalkboard

What is the status of educational opportunity in rural America?

Jessica Drescher and Gabrielle Torrance

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

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Events

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Transforming pathways in the Global South for young women to work

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT

The importance of domestic renewal amid great power competition

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM EDT

Why foreign talent is critical to national security: A conversation with Joseph Votel and Christine Fox

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

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There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

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Resolved

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Experts

Michael Hansen

Senior Fellow - Brown Center on Education Policy

The Herman and George R. Brown Chair - Governance Studies

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Rebecca Winthrop

Director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Adam Looney

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

Educators have pointed advice for tech companies building the metaverse

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

EdSurge

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Indian teacher and students wearing protective face mask attend their class at a government girls school after the Rajasthan government allowed schools to reopen for VIth to VIIIth classes in Beawar. (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA) (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Reimagining teaching and learning spaces

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Elizabeth M. King, and Urvashi Sahni

Thursday, January 20, 2022

BAMYAN, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 8, 2021: Tenth-grade pupils attend a lesson at a secondary school for girls. Upon the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) declared the establishment of its control over the whole country on September 6, a new government formed a day later. Among other reforms, the Taliban have also introduced a number of restrictions concerning education and employment for girls and women. Alexandra Kovalskaya/TASS.No use Russia.

Podcast Episode

Echidna Global Scholars: Better learning opportunities and life outcomes for girls and young women

Jennifer L. O’Donoghue, Nangyalai Attal, Arundhuti Gupta, Edem Dorothy Ossai, and Tran Thi Ngoc Tran

Thursday, December 23, 2021

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