K-12 Education

Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School use their laptops during a class in Dorchester, Massachusetts June 20, 2008. From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America's classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves. To match feature USA-EDUCATION/TECHNOLOGY REUTERS/Adam Hunger (UNITED STATES) - GM1E4770O4801

Are states providing adequate financial literacy education?

Matt Kasman, Benjamin Heuberger, and Ross A. Hammond

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard (R) speaks with Disney II Elementary School principal Bogdana Chkoumbova (C) in Chicago, September 26, 2011. Disney is one of 13 Chicago public schools which have decided to be early adopters of a plan to add 90 minutes to the school day, a scheme pushed hard by new Mayor Rahm Emanuel who says it is necessary to improve the city's K-12 education. Picture taken September 26, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E79T05FP01

Strong principals retain effective teachers—and don’t retain ineffective ones

Jason A. Grissom

Friday, September 28, 2018

Students attend political debate at the Cathedral School in Hamar, Norway September 1, 2017. Picture taken September 1, 2017. REUTERS/Lefteris Karagiannopoulos - RC1EC9E155C0

A counterintuitive proposal for improving education and healing America: Debate-centered instruction

Robert E. Litan

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Students listen to their teacher during a lesson at the Islamabad College for girls in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz SEARCH "FIROUZ EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC15B45AD320

Lessons from a girls’ education advocacy initiative in Pakistan

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Why doctors and mayors will be the next playful learning advocates

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As kids go back to school, these are the education story lines experts are watching

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Teachers walk the picket line as they strike outside Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington September 9, 2015. Classes were cancelled for 53,000 students as Seattle teachers and support staff marched in picket lines on Wednesday on what was supposed to be the first day of school, waging their first such strike in three decades after contract talks between the school district and the teachers' union failed. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight - GF10000199643

Teachers aren’t getting younger, we’re just paying them less

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

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

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

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in Washington, D.C.

A progress report on Betsy DeVos’ education agenda

Elizabeth Mann Levesque and Fred Dews

Friday, August 24, 2018

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Millennial teachers of color will change public schools—if given the chance

Mary E. Dilworth

Friday, August 24, 2018