State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that…
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require…
Deval Patrick is a professor of practice and co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
“Born in Pedamaddali village of Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh in 1939, K. Madhava Rao did his early schooling in a village school,…
Gender segregation in the field of study is still a pervasive phenomenon in many countries. In this paper, we highlight the crucial role of…
States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is…
How can we improve academic achievement and college attainment for disadvantaged students? To address this question, education researchers…
Anti-immigrant stereotypes are widespread in most contemporary societies. These negative stereotypes are partly due to misinformation and…