Soft skills, also known as social, emotional, and behavioral skills, at one time may have been called character. Researchers like psychologist Angela Duckworth have identified...
Bottom line: Charter schools are not a panacea. The best charter school networks, like KIPP, are great. But as this article states, the average charter...
Targeting somewhat older children, the Tennessee Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio, or STAR experiment, investigated the effects of being assigned to a small class size from kindergarten...
Once state and federal spending are included in the example of Texas school districts above, the gaps are reduced dramatically: Total revenues per student in...
Some states spend a lot to instruct their public school students; others spend relatively little. Although money isn’t a silver bullet—poor districts that receive cash...
The pay and prestige disincentives among the best and brightest to teach may pose an especially large problem for high-poverty schools, where work environment challenges...
However, some states with similar shares of low-income students have very different levels of proficiency. For example, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey all have a...
One year of additional schooling lowers the probability of a student later being unemployed by 3.6 percentage points, of being on welfare by 5.5 percentage...
Although there is substantial variation in earnings within majors, those that emphasize quantitative skills—such as engineering, computer science, economics, and finance—tend on average to have...
The skills premium--the difference in earnings between low and high-skilled workers--is one of the economic facts the Hamilton Project report explores....