Education

Afghan girls carry wheat as they work on a wheat field in outskirts of Jalalabad province, May 15, 2014. REUTERS/ Parwiz (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY)

Education Plus Development

The power of technical and vocational skills: Increasing girls’ participation in formal agriculture education in Afghanistan

Nangyalai Attal

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

--FILE--A male Chinese teacher gives a lesson to his students in a classroom at a junior high school in Shiziyuan town, Shenxian county, Liaocheng city, east China's Shandong province, 13 January 2015.Worried that a shortage of male teachers has produced a generation of timid, self-centred and effeminate boys, educators in China are working to reinforce traditional gender roles and values in the classroom. In Zhengzhou, a city on the southern bank of the Yellow River, schools have asked boys to sign petitions pledging to act like "real men". In Shanghai, principals are trying boys-only classes, with courses like martial arts, computer repair and physics. In Hangzhou, in eastern China, educators have started a summer camp called "West Point Boys", complete with taekwon-do classes and the motto: "We bring out the men in boys." Education officials across China are aggressively recruiting male teachers, as the domestic news media warns of a need to "salvage masculinity in schools".No Use China. No Use France.

Education Plus Development

How teacher expectations empower student learning

Niharika Gupta and Sameer Sampat

Thursday, July 29, 2021

A girl in a classroom in Tanzania smiles at the camera.

Education Plus Development

A structured learning approach to support scaling: Guidelines for how to do this in practice

Patrick Hannahan and Lydia Wilbard

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Economic Development

Supporting distressed communities by strengthening regional public universities: A federal policy proposal

Robert Maxim and Mark Muro

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Reports

A student uses a driving simulator for civil engineering machines during a visit of the French President to The School of Application to the Trades of Public Works (EATP), which is devoted to apprenticeship and vocational training in Egletons, France, October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ludovic Marin/Pool - RC1A228984D0

Higher Education

Quick college credentials: Student outcomes and accountability policy for short-term programs

Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Kathryn J. Blanchard

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Why local leaders in Mobile, Alabama must address racial equity in the manufacturing sector

Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, and Anthony Barr

Friday, July 16, 2021

Teacher helping elementary school boy using tablet computer

Education

Improving K-12 education for Hispanic students

Richard V. Reeves and Ember Smith

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Millions Learning scaling education tools

Report

Putting scaling principles into practice: Resources to expand and sustain impact in education

Jenny Perlman Robinson, Molly Curtiss Wyss, and Patrick Hannahan

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Computer science education in New Brunswick

Report

How New Brunswick implemented its computer science education program

Yuri Nesen, Brian Fowler, and Emiliana Vegas

Friday, June 25, 2021

Blog Posts

A student in a Nigerian classroom raises her hand.

Education Plus Development

Education in emergency in Nigeria: Creating gender equitable policies so all girls have an uninterrupted right to learn

Edem Dorothy Ossai

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Up Front

Class Notes: Early childhood education’s effects, the Black unemployment rate, and more

Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves

Monday, July 26, 2021

Brown Center Chalkboard

Who’s getting pulled in weed-out courses for STEM majors?

Marissa E. Thompson

Monday, July 26, 2021

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Events

2021

Jul

Past Event

Improving labor and education data systems after the COVID-19 unemployment crisis

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Protecting and elevating early years programming during and after COVID-19: Tools to support adequate, equitable, and efficient investments

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Examining the effects of student debt cancellation

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

Online only

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Related Books

Resolved

By Robert E. Litan

2020

Restoring the American Dream

By Richard D. Kahlenberg

2019

Higher Education to 2030

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2019

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Experts

Emiliana Vegas

Co-director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

EmiVegasV

Jenny Perlman Robinson

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

@JennyPerlman

Stephanie Riegg Cellini

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy

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Multimedia

A girl gestures as she takes part in a demonstration as part of a global day of action on climate change at the school in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham

Podcast Episode

Girls’ education is key to climate change solutions

Christina Kwauk, Lucia Fry, Raju Kumar Narzary, and Fred Dews

Friday, April 30, 2021

Benjamin Banneker Senior High School (Nyttend, Wikimedia Commons)

Podcast Episode

What online forum discussions reveal about segregation in DC public schools

Vanessa Williamson and Fred Dews

Friday, April 9, 2021

Kindergarten teacher Princess Bryant prepares her classroom, from where she will begin the new school year teaching classes virtually because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the Tynan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Podcast Episode

Why teacher diversity benefits students of color

Michael Hansen and Fred Dews

Friday, April 2, 2021

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