SPOTLIGHT: Education
College students studying
Lois Dickson Rice and David Mundel, December 2008
David Mundel with Lois Rice discuss the results of a recent natural experiment on the effect of grant programs on college-going among lower income youth.
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Education, Economic Mobility, U.S. Higher Education
Event
Samantha Constant - The Universal American School in Kuwait.
Friday, November 21, 2008
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Washington, DC
On November 21, the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings hosted David Arnold, president of the American University in Cairo, for a discussion on the future of American-style higher education in the Middle East. The discussion will highlight the growing ties between U.S. colleges and universities and their counterparts in the Middle East and the role of such institutions in promoting social and economic development in the region.
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Middle East, Education, Development
Education
Reuters/Adam Hunger - Students raise their hands at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School during a class in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Tom Loveless, September 22, 2008
More U.S. eighth grade students take algebra today than any other math course. However, universal eighth grade algebra is creating more problems than it solves, writes Tom Loveless, as some 120,000 middle-schoolers are now struggling in advanced classes for which they are woefully unprepared.
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Education, K-12 Education
SPOTLIGHT: Education
Corbis/Andersen Ross - School children raising their hands.
Tom Loveless, December 11, 2007
The 2007 Brown Center Report on American Education examines how well American students are learning in math and reading, the enrollment patterns in private and public schools, and whether more time spent learning math increases achievement. Tom Loveless, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, authors this report.
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Education, K-12 Education
UPCOMING EVENT
Thursday, December 04, 2008
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC
On December 4, the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings and the Committee for Economic Development will host a discussion on the importance of early child development and its impact on sustainable economic development in the developing world. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, December 01, 2008
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC
An extensive six-year study concludes that K-12 school finance systems are burdened by rules and narrow policies that hold local officials accountable for compliance but not results. On December 1, the Metropolitan Policy Program and the Brown Center on Education Policy will co-host a discussion on this new report, “Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools,” with two of its authors, Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Hill and University of Washington Research Associate Professor Marguerite Roza. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Navtej Dhillon and Ragui Assaad, October 29, 2008, The Brookings Institution
In a recorded discussion, Navtej Dhillon speaks to Dr. Ragui Assaad on short-term and long-term prospects for the Egyptian economy. This piece is the second in a series of analyses, "Food, Fuel, and Finance: How Will the Middle East Weather the Global Economic Crisis?" by the Middle East Youth Initiative. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs and Isabel V. Sawhill, Fourth Quarter 2008, The Milken Institute Review
The past few decades have led to more inequality in both income and wealth than we have seen since the late 1920s. Despite this, Americans seem to care more about equality of opportunity than about equality of outcomes. Julia Isaacs and Isabel Sawhill describe ways to ensure greater equality of opportunity and economic mobility. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC
From 1990 to 2007, national enrollment in algebra courses soared from 16 percent to more than 30 percent of all eighth graders. What effect has increasing algebra enrollments had on students and teachers? On October 22, the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings hosted a discussion of this trend, documented in the recent report, "The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth Grade Algebra." Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Tom Loveless, October 16, 2008, The National Mathematics Advisory Panel
As a member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, Tom Loveless discusses the policy implications of the Panel's findings at the federal, state, district, and school levels, including recommendations related to state standards, curriculum frameworks, and assessments. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Sara Mead and Andrew J. Rotherham, October 16, 2008, The Brookings Institution
To resolve dramatic disparities in educational achievement and ensure future American workers are globally competitive, the federal government needs to change the game by catalyzing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in public education. A new office within the Department of Education should partner with the private sector, philanthropy, and state/local governments to scale up successful educational entrepreneurs and seed transformative educational innovations. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Navtej Dhillon, Amina Fahmy and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, October 01, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Navtej Dhillon, Amina Fahmy, and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani discuss the troubled state of Egypt’s education system, demonstrated most recently by the organized leaking of national exams. Growing frustration among parents and students can be remedied by reforming signals from the labor market and university admissions policies. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
David F. Garrison, Margery Austin Turner, Jennifer Comey, Barika Williams, Elizabeth Guernsey, Marni Allen, Mary Filardo, Nancy Huvendick and Ping Sung, September 29, 2008, The Brookings Institution
New analysis by Greater Washington Research at Brookings, the Urban Institute and 21st Century School Fund argues that Washington, DC can become a more family-friendly city by improving its public schools, expanding affordable housing, and revitalizing its neighborhoods. The paper examines families’ current public school choices and recommends that the city strategically link its policies and investments in education, affordable housing, and neighborhood revitalization in order to better serve those already living here, attract new families with children to city neighborhoods, and encourage young couples with preschool-age children to stay in the city. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Navtej Dhillon, September 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution
In the wake of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, Navtej Dhillon emphasizes that human development, resource management, and the productive use of a fast growing youth population are of utmost importance to Yemen’s future, the poorest country in the Arab world. The international community must now do more than ever to invest in sustainable economic development and institutional capacity-building to ensure the country’s prosperity and stability. Read More