July 30, 2023
Do admissions committees of highly-selective colleges consider family income along with applicants’ academic accomplishments, athletic achievements, legacy status, and extra-curricular activities?
March 5, 2023
Mathematics and reading test scores for grades 3-5 at schools near NASCAR race tracks improved in the years after NASCAR switched to unleaded fuel.
October 3, 2022
Whether to separate students into classrooms by ability is a contested issue. New research looks at the practice and its impact on student achievement in Texas.
June 7, 2022
Spring 2022 enrollment was worse than expected given trends toward more normal college operations. A continued decline would compound challenges facing many colleges.
April 17, 2022
Phillip Levine joins EconoFact Chats to discuss the problems that arise from the opacity of college costs.
April 15, 2022
Although the number of women in STEM has increased, gender disparities in representation within STEM fields persist and have widened at the undergraduate level.
July 18, 2021
Nora Gordon, among the country’s leading experts on education policy and finance, joins EconoFact Chats to discuss policy responses to learning loss in the wake of COVID-19.
June 14, 2021
David Deming (Harvard) discusses why manufacturing jobs are no longer a straightforward path to the middle class, and why greater investments in public colleges can help more people get well-paying jobs in a changing economy.
June 3, 2021
Despite high returns to education, decades of declining taxpayer support have allowed public colleges to fall into disrepair, just like our buildings, bridges and roads.