The Great Stagnation of American Education

This weekend in The New York Times, Robert J. Gordon discussed the decline in education attainment and its potential economic effects. In his piece, he highlighted research that shows low-income students “often don’t apply to elite colleges and wind up at subpar ones, deeply in debt” by Caroline Hoxby. In a recent Hamilton Project discussion paper, “Informing Students about Their College Options: A Proposal for Broadening the Expanding College Opportunities Project,” Hoxby and Sarah Turner outline a strategy for improving college outcomes for high-achieving, low-income students. Building on previous research showing that most high-achieving, low-income students do not even apply to selective colleges, Hoxby and Turner propose expanding a recently piloted informational intervention called the Expanding College Opportunities (ECO) Project. To read the full piece, click here.