By Carla Howe. With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) need to make evidenced-based decisions for students. More...

By Michael Hansen. Yet in recent years, President Obama and the U.S. Department of Education have been promoting the career side of the label more, making the case that technical education is not at odds with academic preparation. With union leaders, industry groups, and researchers joining the list of those backing it, career and technical education appears to be well poised to gain steam as the next viable policy lever to help improve the plight of America’s youth. More...

By Constanze Stelzenmüller. When I moved here from Berlin more than a year ago, books constituted the bulk of my possessions. The movers glumly counted 60 boxes. Now, my books line an entire wall of my condo. More...

By Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue and Elizabeth Kneebone. Poverty is about a lack of money, but it’s not only about that. As a lived experience, poverty is also characterized by ill health, insecurity, discomfort, isolation, and more. To put it another way: Poverty is multidimensional, and its dimensions often cluster together to intensify the negative effects of being poor. More...

By Jenny Perlman Robinson and Rebecca Winthrop, with Eileen McGivney. Around the world, countries are grappling with how to scale quality education for their children and youth. Quality education is at the center of a nation’s progress, and it is also enshrined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which 193 countries have recently committed to support. While the spread of schooling over the past 150 years is one of the most widely successful “going to scale” stories, this expansion too often has been met with little mastery of core academic content and higher-order thinking skills. More...

By Brian A. Sponsler and Nicholas Hillman. To increase educational attainment levels, the process of preparing and applying for college needs to improve. Students need to know when to apply for financial aid, how to choose a college that matches their academic and social preferences, and develop awareness about what happens after college in terms of repaying debt and finding a job. More...

By Dick Startz. Roughly 100,000 students a year earn a bachelor’s degree in education, a number that has been steady for decades. How do ed students spend their careers? Do they teach or do they follow an alternative career. More...

By Beth Akers. “Higher education, more than ever, is the ticket to the middle class.” So said President Obama last year. More...