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Brown Center Chalkboard

On ‘light-touches’ and ‘heavy-hands’: 2 strategies to tackle educational inequities

Neil A. Lewis, Jr.

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Chronic Absence Interactive Screenshot

Up Front

What are the factors that affect learning at your school?

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Graduates arrive for commencement at the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley, United States May 16, 2015. REUTERS/Noah Berger TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000097361

Education

The Times takes on college legacy preferences: Let’s hope it is the knock-out punch

Richard V. Reeves

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Chart: Lifetime earnings by degree type

Brookings Now

Charts of the Week: Back to school

Friday, August 30, 2019

Reports

A girl displaced as a result of Boko Haram attacks in the northeast region of Nigeria, uses a mortar and pestle at a camp for internally displaced people in Yola, Adamawa State January 14, 2015. Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria's medieval Muslim empires, but for those in its territory life is a litany of killings, kidnappings, hunger and economic collapse. Picture taken January 14. To match Insight NIGERIA-BOKOHARAM/ REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY EDUCATION) - GM1EB1K12UW01

Report

Building resilience and resistance to child, early, and forced marriage through acquiring skills

Judith-Ann Walker

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Students applaud as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to deliver the commencement address at the Worcester Technical High School graduation ceremony in Worcester, Massachusetts June 11, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION) - GM1EA6C0JR601

K-12 Education

Elite or elitist? Lessons for colleges from selective high schools

Richard V. Reeves and Ashley Schobert

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Azonmayon Moses, 21-year-old teacher and first time voter, poses for a picture in his classroom in the Makoko shanty town built on stilts in a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria February 4, 2019. He is anxious that who ever becomes president does not order the demolition of the precarious settlement he calls home. Azonmayon said: "He must give us assurance that if we vote for them, that they are not going to do anything to us, they must allow us to stay here safely." But he is no fan of the current president. "Everything is hard in the time of Buhari. To find a job is very difficult, to buy food is very hard for us now so that's why we don't need him now." Picture taken February 4, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja - RC19D2735C00

Report

The global education challenge: Scaling up to tackle the learning crisis

Thursday, July 25, 2019

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

Blog Posts

Graduates of The City College of New York stand at their commencement ceremony in Manhattan on May 31, 2019. REUTERS/Gabriela Bhaskar - RC1BEA7E4900

Brown Center Chalkboard

The value of student-teacher matching: Implications for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act

Travis J. Bristol

Monday, August 26, 2019

Jordanian students sit in class at Baptist School in Ajloun city, 77km north of Amman, October 1, 2009. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E5A11PVB01

Education Plus Development

To create systems change in education, shift away from a ‘project mentality’

Friday, August 16, 2019

Children wait for the arrival of Belgium's King Albert II at the Belgian School in Kinshasa June 29, 2010. Belgian King Albert II is on a three-day official visit to Congo to attend the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of independence. REUTERS/Frederic Sierakowski/Pool (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E66U00ND01

Education Plus Development

Integrating 21st century skills in the classroom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Helyn Kim, Jovin Mukadi Tsangala, Walid Hedidar, and Esther Care

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

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Events

Girls' education research and policy symposium

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM EDT

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

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Related Books

R

Restoring the American Dream

By Richard D. Kahlenberg

2019

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

Experts

Women eat watermelons at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California April 10, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - GF10000055583

Up Front

Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Mar 17, 2019; Nashville, TN, USA; A member of the Bridgestone Arena crew sweeps confetti off the court after a win by the Auburn Tigers over the Tennessee Volunteers in the SEC conference tournament championship game at Bridgestone Arena. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports - 12368716

Up Front

College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Jon Valant

Fellow - Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy

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Multimedia

Names of missing Chibok school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgency five years ago are displayed during the 5th year anniversary of their abduction, in Abuja, Nigeria April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC19E45DE390

Africa in focus

Beneath the Tamarind Tree: Nigeria and the resilience of the Chibok Girls

Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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

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