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Work permit applications suggest prior immigration is still pushing up labor supply—for now
Work permit applications remain elevated despite recent immigration slowdowns, illustrating a lag between policy changes and labor market effects that will continue impacting labor supply through 2025.
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Lessons for broadening school accountability under the Every Student Succeeds Act
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Lauren Bauer, and Megan Mumford summarize lessons learned from the No Child Left Behind Act and how they relate to accountability …
Seven facts on noncognitive skills from education to the labor market
In the past 30 years, the U.S. labor market has shifted dramatically toward increasing demand and reward for noncognitive skills. These noncognitive skills—els…
The long-term impact of the Head Start program
In this Economic Analysis, The Hamilton Project explores the impact of Head Start on a new set of long-term outcomes, extending landmark analyses further into …
Improving academic outcomes for disadvantaged students: Scaling up individualized tutorials
Improving the educational outcomes of economically disadvantaged children is a policy priority in the United States, and yet relatively little progress has bee…
Learning what works in educational technology with a case study of EDUSTAR
Innovations in technology hold great promise for application in education, and yet new educational technologies have yet to fundamentally advance student outco…
Increasing targeting, flexibility, and transparency in Title I of the ESEA
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act distributes over $14 billion in federal funds to school districts to help disadvantaged students. Over it…
Fourteen economic facts on education and economic opportunity
There are many factors at work in determining educational outcomes; some of these are more easily addressed by policy reforms than others, and not all can be a…
Who has access to charter schools?
Allowing charter schools to operate is a policy lever that can encourage innovation and improvement in the education sector through competition. Yet, for chart…
