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Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, gives featured remarks on the Obama Administration’s efforts to reform America’s broken immigration system and why that is an economic imperative.
Retraining in technical fields provides higher returns for workers than retraining in non-technical classes.
On September 27, The Hamilton Project at Brookings helda forum to highlight new policy ideas and perspectives on how to improve student performance in K-12 education. The program concluded with a discussion on the path forward in education reform with Teach for America Founder and CEO Wendy Kopp and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, moderated by David Leonhardt, D.C. bureau chief of the New York Times.
Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Robert E. Rubin welcomes the crowd at the event "Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement," and Advisory Council member Roger C. Altman provides an overview of a new strategy paper. Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between Harvard University Professor and EdLabs CEO Roland Fryer, former Superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Peter Gorman, New Visions for Public Schools President Robert L. Hughes, and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.
New York Times D.C. Bureau Chief David Leonhardt moderates a conversation between Teach for America Founder and CEO Wendy Kopp and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten at the event "Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement."
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between University of Chicago Professor Derek Neal, former Superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Peter Gorman, New Visions for Public Schools President Robert L. Hughes, and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew at the event "Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement."
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between University of Michigan Professor Brian A. Jacob, Columbia University Professor Jonah E. Rockoff, former Superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Peter Gorman, New Visions for Public Schools President Robert L. Hughes, and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew at the event "Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement."
New York Times D.C. Bureau Chief David Leonhardt moderates a conversation between Teach for America Founder and CEO Wendy Kopp and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten at the event "Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement."
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between University of Chicago Professor Derek Neal, former Superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Peter Gorman, New Visions for Public Schools President Robert L. Hughes, and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew at the event "Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement."
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between University of Michigan Professor Brian A. Jacob, Columbia University Professor Jonah E. Rockoff, former Superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Peter Gorman, New Visions for Public Schools President Robert L. Hughes, and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew at the event "Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement."
Students are more likely to respond to education incentives for certain inputs, such as reading books, than more general outputs, such as making good grades.
Over the last 40 years, the salary gap between teachers and nonteachers has grown by over $10,000.
Investments in education have narrowed the black-white skill gap for much of the twentieth century, but has stagnated since the 1980s.
The United States scores below the OCED average in mathematics, despite spending $3,000 more per student than the OCED average.
Over the last 30 years, math and reading test scores for high school seniors have barely moved.
Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Robert E. Rubin welcomes the crowd at the event "Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement," and Advisory Council member Roger C. Altman provides an overview of a new strategy paper. Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between Harvard University Professor and EdLabs CEO Roland Fryer, former Superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Peter Gorman, New Visions for Public Schools President Robert L. Hughes, and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.
Despite continued debate over the value of a college education, data shows that higher education has a much higher rate of return than any other investment.
In today’s economy, those young adults with a college degree are more likely to be employed and earn higher wages than their peers with a high school diploma only or less.
Despite increases in per-student education spending, high school and college completion rates have stagnated over the past 30 years.
In addition to the 14 million Americans officially counted as unemployed, there are over 11 million American workers who are underutilized, underemployed, or have given up seeking work.
College tuition and fees have risen dramatically during the last 30 years for public and private U.S. institutions and are projected to continue increasing.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the United States led the world in the share of the population that completed a college degree; by 2008 that lead had essentially vanished.
In communities with large numbers of displaced workers, more-educated workers are more likely to move to a new city of country in search of employment than less-educated workers.
Over the past three decades, the wages of college graduates — both men and women — have increased significantly more than the wages of less educated workers.
Full audio of Panel One from the event The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth
Full audio of Panel Two from the event The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth
A study on Baltimore public schools shows that socio-economic status impacts academic achievement during the summer months.
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