Education and Family
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High Impact Practices in Higher Ed Need an Equity Framework
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Author’s Note: On Nov. 8, 2021, Harris students received from Dean Baicker the shocking news that our classmate Samantha (Sam) Burton, MPP ’22, had passed away several days prior due to a sudden illness. In her honor, below is a Research-in-Review of a paper she co-authored with undergraduate mentors Dr.…
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California Mathematics Framework: Working Against Equity?
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Much of the current rhetoric around public schooling is politicized: the debate over mask mandates, the ongoing question of standardized testing, critical race theory. One school subject that has traditionally been regarded as unbiased and objective is mathematics, but that is no longer the case. Recently, the state of California…
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Solving Public Problems: An Interview with Dr. Beth Simone Noveck
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This article was co-authored by Molly Smith and Ellie Vorhaben. Dr. Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University where she is core faculty at the Institute of Experiential AI, and director of the Burnes Family Center for Global Impact. She is the Director of The Governance Lab, a…
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Equity As a Measurement of Success in Charter Schools
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America is in the midst of a contentious debate over whether charter schools are an effective institutional remedy for closing the education gap. The divisive nature of the issue tends to push policymakers, educators, and parents to extremes; observers and stakeholders often fail to acknowledge the unique regional and local…
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The Future of the Child Tax Credit
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After months of negotiations, Sen. Joe Manchin announced he would not support the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better Act — legislation that would make historically unparalleled investments in clean energy, health care, and a wide range of social programs. Effectively preventing its passage in the Senate, Manchin objected to the…
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Who Benefits From Student Debt Cancellation?
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As of August 2021, roughly 44 million Americans held a cumulative $1.57 trillion in student debt. Student debt held by Americans has doubled since 2008 and is growing faster than any other form of household debt. In fact, the average household today has nearly four times as much student debt…
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Reallocating Funds to Education: A Better Chance for Youth
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Carly Domicolo is a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board and an alumna of the Writing Persuasive Public Policy Credential Program at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Calls to defund the police are louder than ever since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis more…
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Addressing Mental Health in the Return to School
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With the imminent return to campus, several school systems have eliminated the remote learning option entirely for the 2021-2022 school year in order to maximize in-person learning and reduce last year’s learning loss. However, the rise of the delta variant and inconsistency in state governance has bred confusion across school…
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How Same-Race Teaching Could Change Our Education System
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Deciphering the causal effects, or “treatment effects”, of different educational designs on student outcomes is an increasingly difficult task in the United States. Understanding these effects is vitally important in order to provide students with the best opportunity for positive educational outcomes. This difficulty in parsing out design outcomes is…
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Remote Learning and the Widening K-12 Achievement Gap
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As we pass the anniversary of the first round of lockdowns, Americans are longing for a return to normalcy. With COVID-19 numbers decreasing due to increased testing and vaccine distribution, schools nationwide have begun the process of returning teachers and students to the classroom. Many schools have returned to a hybrid model of teaching,…
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Improper Restraint: Schools Are Overusing Isolated Timeouts
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Society charges schools with the duty to provide all students the opportunity to learn in a safe and positive environment. However, newly released data shows that educators and administrators increasingly and inappropriately utilize seclusion — or “isolated timeouts” — to manage behavior. Isolated timeouts are not proven to effectively resolve…