Education

Children listen to their teacher on the first day of the new school year in a primary school in Nice

Brown Center Chalkboard

Leveraging the student-teaching experience to train tomorrow’s great teachers

Dan Goldhaber, John Krieg, and Roddy Theobald

Monday, May 20, 2019

Zambian children attend school in a poverty stricken area near the country's capital Lusaka July 1, 2005. July 1 was designated "Whit Band Day" as campaigners began a week of action aimed at focusing attention on issues of poverty ahead of next weeks meeting of G8 leaders in Gleneagles, Scotland. REUTERS/Salim Henry SH/AH - RP6DRMVDHNAB

Education Plus Development

What have we learned about the learning crisis?

Michelle Kaffenberger

Friday, May 17, 2019

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks to supporters in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht - RC1D993CBE70

Brown Center Chalkboard

Our next secretary of education should be drafted out of college, not high school

Friday, May 17, 2019

Makpal Abrazakova, 25, uses her computer to chat with friends in her home in Aksu-Ayuly in central Kazakhstan, February 23, 2012. Makpal, who is professionally trained as a lawyer, is the only female eagle hunter in Kazakhstan. She started learning falconry from her father at the age of 13. Picture taken February 23, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS) - GM1E8330ED901

Education Plus Development

Revolutionizing online education: A conversation with President Michael Crow of Arizona State University

Emal Dusst and Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, May 17, 2019

Reports

Meet the out-of-work young adults

Labor Policy & Unemployment

Meet the millions of young adults who are out of work

Martha Ross and Natalie Holmes

April 9, 2019

Boys play at a school in Yemen's capital Sanaa sheltering them and their families after the conflict forced them to flee their areas from the Houthi-controlled northern province of Saada August 4, 2015. A Saudi-led Arab alliance launched a military campaign on March 26 to end Houthi control over much of Yemen and to return President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi from exile. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - GF20000013228

Report

How playful learning can help leapfrog progress in education

Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Park Hye-ri, 28, a startup business program manager, who spent time at Prison Inside Me, a mock prison facility, uses a laptop at a cafe in Incheon, South Korea, November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEARCH "PRISON RETREAT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC148F7054E0

Higher Education

The failings of online for-profit colleges: Findings from student borrower focus groups

Robin Howarth and Lisa Stifler

Thursday, March 28, 2019

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E91H00RI01

Education

The opportunities and risks of K-12 student placement algorithms

Matt Kasman and Jon Valant

Thursday, February 28, 2019

A student works outside Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., September 20, 2018. Picture taken on September 20, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake - RC1B0CCBA810

Higher Education

Does the 90/10 rule unfairly target proprietary institutions or under-resourced schools?

Adam Looney and Vivien Lee

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Blog Posts

Students walk past a classroom building on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., September 20, 2018. Picture taken on September 20, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake - RC1ACEB68CF0

The Avenue

Students need more than an SAT adversity score, they need a boost in wealth

Friday, May 17, 2019

Students use computers at the Vezina Secondary School in the Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada, April 15, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Wattie - GF10000384122

Brown Center Chalkboard

A look inside online learning settings in high schools

Carolyn J. Heinrich, Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Annalee Good, and Huiping (Emily) Cheng

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Mom and daughter

The Avenue

Skip the flowers this Mother’s Day, and invest in moms instead

Friday, May 10, 2019

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Events

Building the workforce of the future: Resilient people and places

9:00 AM - 7:00 PM EDT

Reforming professional military education: The (non) debate over India’s National Defence University

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Leapfrogging inequality: Remaking education to help young people thrive

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Related Books

Higher Education to 2030

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2019

Leapfrogging Inequality

By Rebecca Winthrop; With Adam Barton and Eileen McGivney

2018

The Transformation of Title IX

By R. Shep Melnick

2018

Multimedia

School girls wearing pink turbans wave during celebrations to mark International Day of the Girl Child 2018, at a school in Chandigarh, India October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ajay Verma TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1336C3B510

Podcast Episode

Echidna Global Scholars: Four leaders in girls’ education share their stories and policy ideas

Christina Kwauk and Fred Dews

Friday, December 7, 2018

Students walk through the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia

Brown Center Chalkboard

As free college programs move forward, experts agree that design matters

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Students cross a street to enter for the first day of classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2018. REUTERS/Joe Skipper - RC1EFE4D0510

Education

Arming teachers won’t improve school safety

Friday, August 24, 2018

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