Education

Future Development

Magnets for discrimination? Affirmative action in Maryland

Jishnu Das

Friday, September 21, 2018

Jamuna Devi Saud, 45, sits outside her house while practicing Chaupadi in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal February 16, 2014. Chaupadi is a tradition observed in parts of Nepal, which cuts women off from the rest of society when they are menstruating. Women who practice traditional chaupadi have to sleep in sheds or outbuildings while they are on their period, often with little protection from the elements. They are not allowed to enter houses or temples, use normal public water sources, take part in festivals or touch others during their menstruation, according to a United Nations field bulletin on the issue. Isolated in sheds that are frequently rickety and unhygienic, there have been cases of women dying while practicing chaupadi from illness, exposure, animal attacks or from fires lit in poorly ventilated spaces. Chaupadi was banned by Nepal's Supreme Court in 2005, but it is still common in the country's far and mid-western regions. Picture taken February 16, 2014. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 18 OF 20 FOR PACKAGE 'BANISHED ONCE A MONTH' TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'CHAUPADI' - GM1EA350LH601

Education Plus Development

3 strategies to address menstruation taboos for girls in Nepal

Ganga Gautam

Friday, September 21, 2018

Students sit in the library of the university KU Leuven in Leuven

Education

The promise of free college (and its potential pitfalls)

Douglas Harris, Raquel Farmer-Hinton, Debbie Kim, John B. Diamond, Tangela Blakely Reavis, Kelly Krupa Rifelj, Hilary Lustick, and Bradley R. Carl

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Students cheer as U.S. President Barack Obama attends the 2010 Kalamazoo Central High School graduation at Western Michigan University in Michigan, June 7, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION) - GM1E6680PVY01

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Understanding the design of college promise programs, and where to go from here

Meredith Billings

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Reports

Four-year old Tom (R) and his six-year old sister Lisa from Offenbach show Serbian refugee Dragan (2nd L) and his sister Tamara (L) how to play on the climbing frame at a refugee camp in Hanau, Germany, August 18, 2015. Tom and Lisa learned from her mother that a lot of refugees come to Germany and most of them, especially the children, don't have much clothes or toys to play with. The two German youngsters than decided to visit the refugee camp to donate from their own wardrobe and toys and "make friends" with the kids from abroad. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach - GF10000175689

Early Childhood Education

Learning Landscapes: Can urban planning and the learning sciences work together to help children?

Brenna Hassinger-Das, Andres S. Bustamante, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Susan Magsamen, Jenny Perlman Robinson, and Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Students eat lunch in the cafeteria at a middle school in San Diego, California March 7, 2011. San Diego's Healthy Works Project received the country's largest grant, 16 million dollars, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 to help combat wellness and the obesity epidemic. Picture taken March 7, 2011. To match Special Report USA-FOODLOBBY/ REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E84R1FJZ01

Education

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

Matthew M. Chingos

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Teacher Jenna Rosenberg speaks to her first grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9320AA101

Early Childhood Education

Accountability for early education–a different approach and some positive signs

Susanna Loeb

Thursday, August 9, 2018

A student take a test in the hallway outside the classroom

Education

Evidence on New York City and Boston exam schools

Susan M. Dynarski

Thursday, July 19, 2018

A student exits a bus as he arrives at Venice High School in Los Angeles, California December 16, 2015. Classes resume today in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the United States, after they were closed on Tuesday after officials reported receiving an unspecified threat to the district and ordered a search of all schools in the city. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn - GF10000267926

K-12 Education

Do school secessions worsen racial segregation? It’s complicated

Richard V. Reeves and Nathan Joo

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Blog Posts

A baby touches her mother's shoulder as they rest at the shelter set up in the Lycee Philippe Guerrier ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares - S1BEUEWVDMAA

Education Plus Development

Why child care is essential to young mothers’ education in Jamaica

Dasmine Kennedy

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Graduating seniors react during Commencement ceremonies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S., May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC1F1F41DBB0

Brown Center Chalkboard

Free college for all will power our 21st-century economy and empower our democracy

Arne Duncan and John Bridgeland

Monday, September 17, 2018

The campus of the University of Pennsyvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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It happens here, too: Lessons for universities on preventing sexual harassment

Dick Startz

Friday, September 14, 2018

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Development Seminar | No free lunch: Using technology to improve the efficacy of school feeding programmes

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Education

Arming teachers won’t improve school safety

Michael Hansen

Friday, August 24, 2018

Education

A progress report on Betsy DeVos’ education agenda

Elizabeth Mann Levesque and Fred Dews

Friday, August 24, 2018

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The transformation of Title IX

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Education

Magnets for discrimination? Affirmative action in Maryland

3 strategies to address menstruation taboos for girls in Nepal

The promise of free college (and its potential pitfalls)

Understanding the design of college promise programs, and where to go from here

Reports

Learning Landscapes: Can urban planning and the learning sciences work together to help children?

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

Accountability for early education–a different approach and some positive signs

Evidence on New York City and Boston exam schools

Do school secessions worsen racial segregation? It’s complicated

Blog Posts

Why child care is essential to young mothers’ education in Jamaica

Free college for all will power our 21st-century economy and empower our democracy

It happens here, too: Lessons for universities on preventing sexual harassment

Events

The future of free college

Why doctors and mayors will be the next playful learning advocates

Development Seminar | No free lunch: Using technology to improve the efficacy of school feeding programmes

Related Books

Leapfrogging Inequality

The Transformation of Title IX

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Arming teachers won’t improve school safety

A progress report on Betsy DeVos’ education agenda

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