This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mitch Daniels went from running the state of Indiana, as its two-term Republican governor, to running its top flight public university, Purdue University, based in West Lafayette. Read more about higher education…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation-Strong Start (MIHOPE-Strong Start) is the largest random assignment study to date to examine the effectiveness of home visiting services on improving birth outcomes and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “The notion that we can go to college for four years and then spend that knowledge for the next 30 is over,” Thomas Friedman announced in yesterday’s New York Times.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I was wrong. When the Every Student Succeeds Act passed in late 2015, I identified two ambiguities I thought were most ripe for exploitation to keep the federal boot hovering over public…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bring leading computer scientists together with leading astrophysicists, and exciting stuff happens—complex computer simulations of galaxy formation, algorithms churning through terabytes of data collected by telescope arrays. Read more about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past few years have brought some positive developments for families and children. Economic growth has been steady, with nearly 13 million new jobs created since the end of the recession. More children…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More states than ever are providing publicly funded preschool. That’s according to a new report from the researchers at the National Institute for Early Education Research, or NIEER, who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders, says university head Patrick Awuah — because it builds decision-making skills, an ethical framework and a broad vision. Awuah himself…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2008, Jennifer Green was extremely frustrated by teacher turnover in the Baltimore schools, where she trained middle- and high-school educators. One day she sat down for lunch with a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The city of Springfield, Massachusetts, has had a serendipitous sequence of events supercharge its preschool-expansion efforts. Federal money came in just as local support for early-childhood education crested, and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We believe that scientific progress has been, and will continue to be, one of the biggest contributors to improvements in human well-being, and we hope to play a part in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I was relieved when I read the Los Angeles Times‘ editorial a couple of weeks ago about the newfound humility of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as regards its education philanthropy.…