racial discrimination

Failure Factories: When Education Policies Desert Our Children

Feb 1, 2017, 4:00 pm EST

Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium (Room 1120)

The Ford School is pleased to welcome 2016 Livingston Award winners Lisa Gartner, Michael LaForgia, and Nathaniel Lash for a panel discussion on "Failure Factories" - their coverage of what happend after the Pinellas County School Board abandoned integration. A 2017 Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium event.

EPI Policy briefs

Class Size in Michigan: Investigating the Risk of Being in Very Large Classes

September 1, 2016

Brian Jacob, Susan Dynarski, CJ Libassi, Rene Crespin

The number of students in a classroom has long concerned parents, teachers, and policymakers. This aspect of a student’s educational experience has always seemed to be an important marker of school quality, and a long line of research has confirmed...

Student paying attention to teacher in class

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Principled Principals

July 1, 2011

Brian Jacob

If principals have the authority to dismiss teachers, will they dismiss the less effective ones, or will they instead make perverse decisions by letting the good teachers go? Evidence from low-stakes surveys suggests that principals are able to...

racial discrimination

Failure Factories: When Education Policies Desert Our Children

Class Size in Michigan: Investigating the Risk of Being in Very Large Classes

Principled Principals

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