education
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American Students Are Behind: High-Dose Tutoring Can Help
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Four years after the onset of a crippling global pandemic, the American school system has reached a tipping point. COVID-19 brought unprecedented social and economic upheaval, disproportionately affecting students from low-income and minority communities. In response to the pandemic, many schools in the United States were forced to shut down…
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No Adult Left Behind: Automation, Job Loss, and Education Policy
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Artificial intelligence forces important education policy questions into the national landscape. Automation has only gotten cheaper and more prolific through the introduction of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Self-check-out and autonomous driving have taken center stage in the labor automation discussion but just around the corner is a wave of…
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It’s More Than Admissions: Rethinking NYC’s High School Diversity Problem
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Earlier this year, New York City’s public high school admissions process, long known for its complexity, wrapped its third year of major policy change since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Calls for more diversity and equity have played a critical role in driving these changes. Black and Hispanic students are consistently…
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What Japanese Imports in the 1980s Can Tell Us About Employment Today
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The joint processes of industrialization and globalization have undoubtedly reshaped the United States labor market in the post-war period. The dislocation of previously prosperous manufacturing industries in the United States, particularly in what is now called the Rust Belt, has shifted the workforce towards both service sector jobs and jobs…
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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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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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Solving the Issue of Rising College Drop-Out Rates
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Over the past few decades, research has suggested that there exists a gap in access to higher education for low-income populations in the United States. The attention this problem has received has pushed many colleges to develop new programs to improve access. Recent data does indeed show an improvement: college…
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Could Global Warming Increase Racial Disparities in Student Achievement?
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While much of global warming research focuses on the natural world — considering how climate change impacts ecosystems, agriculture, and biodiversity — a new wave of research studies how climate change will reshape the social and economic world. In this emerging field, a novel study suggests that global warming may…
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Digital Tutoring Could Deliver a Tailored Education for Every Child
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In India, despite primary school enrollment rates over 95 percent, over half of students in the 5th grade cannot read at a 2nd grade level. A lagging student will likely absorb little material when she is in a classroom covering material more advanced than her knowledge and skill. This problem…
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Electric School Buses Are Flipping the Traditional Electricity Model on Its Head
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From San Francisco to Chicago to Fairfax, Va., electric buses are helping school districts reduce their carbon footprints and protect the lungs of their young riders. Unlike more popular transit options, electric school buses provide great opportunities to reshape the electric grid without disadvantages such as low range or demand…