K-12 Education

What has COVID-19 taught us about the digital and opportunity divides in America’s schools?

Monday, Nov 09, 2020 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

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Competencies for the 21st century: Jurisdictional progress

Robert Taylor, Charles Fadel, Helyn Kim, and Esther Care

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Substitute teacher Ryan Giese teaches a fourth grade class Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at Parkside Elementary School in Fond du Lac, Wis. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinFon Teacher 100219 Dcr001

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America faces a substitute teacher shortage—and disadvantaged schools are hit hardest

Jing Liu

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Transgender activists and supporters protest potential changes by the Trump administration in federal guidelines issued to public schools in defense of transgender student rights, near the White House in Washington, U.S. February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Brown Center Chalkboard

The complex and dynamic legal landscape of LGBTQ student rights

Suzanne Eckes and Maria Lewis

Monday, October 19, 2020

Reports

Report

Scaling playful learning: How cities can reimagine public spaces to support children and families

Helen Shwe Hadani and Jennifer S. Vey

Friday, September 4, 2020

Report

What do we know about the expansion of K-12 computer science education?

Emiliana Vegas and Brian Fowler

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Students walk past 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

Education

Analyzing the Department of Education’s final Title IX rules on sexual misconduct

R. Shep Melnick

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Policy 2020

The need for civic education in 21st-century schools

Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Dana Hampton, a former patient of Rinova Pain Clinics that was abandoned when her clinic in Clarksville shut down suddenly last month, holds in her hands what could be her last supply of medication at the Hampton household in Cerulean, KY., on Monday, June 3, 2019. With a dwindling supply of pain medication and no way to access her medical records, getting a new pain doctor will be challenging. "We're tired of having to start over," Hampton said about being stuck needing to get new doctors. "This isn't about opioid abusers," she said. "It's about patients abandoned by doctors." Hampton said she may need to start rationing the supply while she and her husband look for a new doctor. Hpt Dana Hampton Rinova Clinic 03

Education

The opioid crisis and community-level spillovers onto children’s education

Rajeev Darolia and John Tyler

Monday, April 13, 2020

Blog Posts

Brown Center Chalkboard

Ending corporal punishment of preschool-age children

Marie Falcone, Diana Quintero, and Jon Valant

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Up Front

Big ideas to redesign K-12 for the automation age

Hannah Van Drie, Ember Smith, and Marcus Casey

Monday, October 12, 2020

US President Donald J. Trump holds a news briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, ?DC, USA, 10 September 2020. Trump fielded questions regarding comments he made to journalist Bob Woodward, author of the forthcoming book ëRageí, that downplayed the threat of the coronavirus. No Use UK. No Use Germany.

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Trump’s administrative presidency and its effort to weaken federal oversight in public education

Kenneth K. Wong

Monday, October 12, 2020

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Can teaching students real debate reduce political polarization?

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Past Policy 2020 Event

Back to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Balancing students’ right to education against public health

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Teachers for the 21st Century

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Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century

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2013

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Experts

Kenneth K. Wong

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Helen Shwe Hadani

Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking

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Multimedia

A view of an empty classroom at a school, as Lebanon's education system is in limbo with multiple challenges, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 8, 2020. Picture taken June 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Podcast Episode

Can impact bonds help solve the global education crisis?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Jaime Saavedra, and Fred Dews

Friday, June 26, 2020

Students board their school bus in a sub-zero temperature in Minneapolis, January 8, 2014. A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people. According to AccuWeather.com, the extreme cold won't last much longer. The frigid air and "polar vortex" that affected about 240 million people in the United States and southern Canada will depart during the second half of this week, and a far-reaching January thaw will begin, according to AccuWeather.com. REUTERS/Eric Miller (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION) - GM1EA190G4I01

Policy 2020

What are charter schools and do they deliver?

Jon Valant

Tuesday, October 15, 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?

Jon Valant

Friday, July 5, 2019

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