Governor Patrick visited Chile this month in an attempt to enhance the state’s collaborations with Latin America in education, clean energy…
Are teachers’ impacts on students’ test scores (“value-added”) a good measure of their quality? This question has sparked debate largely…
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Scholarly analysis in the sociology of education has burgeoned in recent decades. Frontiers in Sociology of Education aims to provide a…
We don't know yet whether computer games like Elmo Rhymes and Double the Donuts can transform learning, but it’s clear that America’s…
In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their schools from…
The Republican presidential debates have been replete with discussions about our economic future, but to listen to the candidates you’d…
As Harvard celebrates its 375th birthday and America celebrates its 235th, it is worth considering what they have in common. Both have…
Last Thursday, the president urged Congress to pony up roughly $200 billion in taxpayer money to "provide more jobs for teachers [and] more…
Three years have passed since the financial crisis of 2008, and unemployment rates remain painfully high. As of August 2011, America…
The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants and natives and the…