By Vimal Patel. Like a sports coach, Dwight A. McBride studies his "win-loss data." As the dean of Northwestern University’s graduate school, he closely tracks his wins, when a graduate student with competing offers chooses his institution, and his losses, when that student goes somewhere else. More...
By . Earning a Ph.D. in a STEM field is meant to be challenging, but data has shown it can be especially so for minority students. While universities have had some success in diversifying their STEM graduate ranks in recent years, completion rates for Ph.D. candidates who are African-American, Latino, Native American, or Alaska Native have lagged behind those of their white, Asian-American, and foreign counterparts. More...
By . Postdoctoral researchers in the United States are often overworked, poorly paid, and stuck in jobs that don’t advance their careers. And efforts to improve the system have progressed slowly, in part because academics who supervise postdocs have little incentive to push for change. More...
By Sarah Dryden-Peterson. Breaking the narrative of terrorism and extremism requires creating hope for the future. Yet more than half of US governors are participating in shutting the door on refugee children’s futures by saying refugees are simply not welcome in their states.
Right now, 2 million Syrian children are displaced outside of Syria and over five million more live amid devastating conflict inside its borders. Most of these children see no future in front of them. More...
By . While students are providing data and schools are reviewing it, families are asking one question of colleges: “How can we afford you”?
Why?
Because they have few answers, and fear they’ll be adding to the $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, a total greater than credit card balances or car loans. More...
By Brian A. Jacob. According to the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, of the 77 educational interventions evaluated by randomized control trials (without major study limitations) commissioned by the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) since its inception in 2002, only 7 (9%) were found to produce positive effects. More...
By Dorothyjean Cratty. The field of education research using statewide longitudinal administrative data on programs and outcomes from preschool to K-12 and postsecondary education and into the workforce (known as P-20W data) is relatively new. More...
By Mark Dynarski. The Every Student Succeeds Act, the new reauthorization of the federal program designed to support the education of disadvantaged students, requires that states and districts use evidence-based interventions to support school improvement. Researchers have studied the effectiveness of education programs for decades and that effort is now producing substantial gains in knowledge of what works and what doesn’t. More...
By Xanthe Ackerman. After the ISIS attack in Paris in November—the deadliest terrorist episode in the European Union in over a decade—nations fell divided, with some holding firm on their commitment to welcome Syrians, while others reproached refugees for fear of terrorist infiltration. More...
By AEI-Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity. Improving the labor market and encouraging work are central to our goals of achieving greater responsibility and opportunity in America. The private economy is the arena where most Americans work hard to realize their dreams. More...
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