Education

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Brown Center Chalkboard

Can school districts achieve racial integration by pursuing socioeconomic integration?

Deven Carlson and Elizabeth Bell

Monday, July 15, 2019

Refugee schoolchildren attend a lesson in a classroom on the first day of the new school year at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan, September 1, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - S1AETYUEWBAB

Education Plus Development

Reflections from global convening for large-scale impact in education

Friday, July 12, 2019

Khanyo Mchunu, 13, posing for a photograph in front of her house in Embo, South Africa, November 30, 2016. REUTERS/Rogan Ward SEARCH "CHRISTMAS WISHES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC13B192B6E0

Education Plus Development

First social impact bond in South Africa shows promise for addressing youth unemployment

Izzy Boggild-Jones and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Friday, July 12, 2019

A four year-old boy plays at the Kathinka-Platzhoff-Stiftung Kindergarten (Kathinka-Platzhoff-foundation kindergarden) in Hanau, 30km (18 miles) south of Frankfurt, July 16, 2013. From August 1, 2013, all children in Germany between the age of 1 and 3 will have a legal entitlement to a place at a kindergarten. The Kindergarten of the Kathinka-Platzhoff-Stiftung is one of few which hosts children between the age of six month and six years. Picture taken July 16. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - BM2E97G14ZD01

Education Plus Development

School’s out: Block out time for spatial learning

Corinne Bower, Lien Vu, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Reports

Primary school students do exercises in the corridor and in a classroom as they avoid outdoor activities due to heavy smog, in Beijing October 11, 2014. The Beijing Meteorological Bureau forecast that gales brought by a cold spell is expected to arrive at the Chinese capital on Saturday night, which would disperse severe smog and air pollution shrouding China's northern regions since Wednesday, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - GM1EAAB1CVT01

Report

Assessment of transversal competencies: Current tools in the Asian region

Esther Care, Alvin Vista, and Helyn Kim

Friday, June 14, 2019

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

Blog Posts

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Brown Center Chalkboard

Rural schools need career counselors, too

Diana Quintero and Yuhe Gu

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Schoolgirls eat their free mid-day meal, distributed by a government-run primary school, in New Delhi July 5, 2013. In an incident on July 16, 2013, twenty-five Indian children from a school in Mashrakh village in the district of Chapra died and dozens needed hospital treatment after apparently being poisoned by a school meal, provided under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, sparking violent protests and angry allegations of blame. Neither the children nor the school pictured in this photograph were involved in Tuesday's poisoning incident. ATTENTION EDITORS - Neither the children nor the school pictured in this photograph were involved in Tuesday's poisoning incident. Picture taken July 5, 2013. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal (INDIA - Tags: FOOD EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E97I0U8R01

Education Plus Development

As India extends preschool education to all, incorporate gender sensitivity from the start

Samyukta Subramanian

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Teacher Kristi Rahn (C) helps to first grade students during a computer lesson in school in Tallinn September 25, 2012. Estonian Tiger Leap Foundation has launched a program called "ProgeTiiger" where Estonian students will be introduced to computer programming and creating web and mobile applications. According to representatives from the foundation, the program will start with students in the first grade, which starts around the age of 7, and will continue through a student's final years of public school, around age 15. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins (ESTONIA - Tags: EDUCATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E89P1PG901

Education Plus Development

How teachers can learn from artificial intelligence

Alina von Davier and Esther Care

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

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Events

Building the workforce of the future: Resilient people and places

9:00 AM - 7:00 PM EDT

Foreign Policy Tiffin Talk | 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

Students disembark from a school bus outside The Ivy Apartments, where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas October 1, 2014. As many as 80 people were in contact with the Dallas Ebola patient at some point, Texas health officials told NBC, marking a significant jump from the 18 people authorities had said may have been exposed to the deadly virus. Additionally, four members of the patient's family have been ordered to stay home as a precaution even though they are not showing symptoms, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement. Picture taken October 1, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Stone

Podcast Episode

What does the debate over school segregation reveal about the Democratic primary field?

Friday, July 5, 2019

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. June 11, 2019. REUTERS/Jordan Gale - RC1AFE17D7B0

Up Front

Joe Biden’s ideas to help the middle class

Ashley Schobert and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

People watch Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) speak during her campaign kick off event in New York, New York, U.S., March 24, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - RC137D9D5970

FixGov

WATCH: Brookings scholars address 21st-century policy issues ahead of 2020

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

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