K-12 Education

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Teacher residencies offer compelling solution to staffing shortages, although at a large investment

Lauren Worley and Nicolas Zerbino

Monday, May 22, 2023

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Extracurricular involvement in high school is not a level playing field

Julie J. Park and Brian Heseung Kim

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

photo of moderator Melissa Kearney, and panelists Nate Hilger and Sharita Gruberg

Children & Families

3 big questions answered on “The Parent Trap” and how to support families

Chris Miller

Friday, May 12, 2023

A girl holds her chalkboard as she arrives to attend lessons at the evening school in Ouakam neighbourhood, Dakar, Senegal January 16, 2019. Picture taken January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Podcast Episode

How Sierra Leone is getting more girls into STEM

The Hon. Minister David Sengeh and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Reports

Essay

A primer on elementary and secondary education in the United States

Sarah Reber and Nora Gordon

Friday, April 21, 2023

Report

The LSX model of cross-sector collaboration: Tackling wicked problems and catalyzing creativity

Lisa Guernsey, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Phillip Ellis

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Students wearing protective face masks attend a class at Yio Chu Kang Secondary School, as schools reopen amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Report

Singapore’s educational reforms toward holistic outcomes

Dennis Kwek, Jeanne Ho, and Hwei Ming Wong

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Teacher Mary Yi works with fourth grade students at the Sokolowski School, where students and teachers are required to wear masks because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Report

Public schools heavily rely on women’s labor. Why do they pay female teachers less?

Michael Hansen, Diana Quintero, and Nicolas Zerbino

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Report

The Comprehensive Learning Diagnosis: Chile’s approach to assess socio-emotional learning in schools

José Weinstein and Juan Bravo

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Blog Posts

Women teacher with class full of children.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Educator biases and organizational climates, together, produce racially disparate school discipline

Jayanti Owens

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Gender

Racial disparities in the high school graduation gender gap

Richard V. Reeves and Simran Kalkat

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

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Brown Center Chalkboard

Rethinking the goals of high school rigor: Three experts weigh in on the AP program and College Board

Suneal Kolluri, Stephanie Owen, and Jack Schneider

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

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Experts

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Multimedia

An empty computer science classroom is seen at the University of Somalia in Mogadishu, July 13, 2017. Picture taken July 13, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Podcast Episode

Computer science education builds skills for life

Michael Hansen, Emiliana Vegas, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 19, 2021

Podcast Episode

S1 Ep26: Rebecca Winthrop, The Brookings Institution

Rebecca Winthrop

Remaking Tomorrow

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Essay

Building skills for life: How to expand and improve computer science education around the world

Emiliana Vegas, Michael Hansen, and Brian Fowler

Monday, October 25, 2021

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Reports

Rethinking education for a climate-resilient future

Education systems transformation symposium

Essential resources for driving community schools forward

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Senior Fellow - Brown Center on Education Policy

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