Nat Malkus and Sam Hollon explore the continuing impact of the nation’s poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic and schools’ responses to it resulted in learning loss…
Ian Rowe argues all students could benefit if policymakers paid less attention to racial achievement gaps. [T]he achievement gap is a poor tool for understanding student failure or promoting student…
While newly released data show four-year graduation rates for North Carolina public schools are comparable to pre-pandemic rates, there are deeper concerns about what knowledge and skills students have when…
Learning loss is a real problem without a simple, one-size-fits-all solution. For addressing a student's learning deficit, research increasingly favors tutors because they have different skill sets than teachers. Education…
When I’m asked about what to expect in the coming school year, I usually offer a delightfully vague answer: it will be different. I don’t know how it will be…
The OECD administers the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests to 15-year-old students from around the world, and results from the 2018 tests were released today. The United States is…
Denise Superville’s Education Week article, In Some Cities, Closing Achievement Gaps Is Not for Schools to Fix Alone, examines the role of schools in providing social services to students. She…
“NC Influencers say state needs to give schools enough money and close achievement gap” is an article that is part of the News & Observer’s The Influencer Series. Here are…
How do we close achievement gaps between students from different racial and socioeconomic groups? One idea is to assign at-risk students to a better teacher. In “Do School Learning Opportunities…
“Marriage is in excellent shape, but only among the well-off,” The Economist declares in a recent editorial on the state of marriage around the world. “Elite couples delay tying the…
For decades, education researchers have concluded that low-income students are taught by less effective students than their higher-income counterparts. These differences are then used to explain why there is an…
The Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution just published “Bringing back busing: Do benefits outweigh cost?,” a must-read article on forced busing. The author is David J.…