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PAST EVENT: Facing the Future: Financing Public Schools


Reuters/Lee Celano - Pre-schooler Cecil Smith (L), 4, holds the hand of a teacher's assistant as he prepares to go to class at an elementary school in Metairie, Louisiana.

Save to My Portfolio Facing the Future: Financing Public Schools

Monday, December 01, 2008
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC

An extensive six-year study concludes that K-12 school finance systems are burdened by rules and narrow policies that hold local officials accountable for compliance but not results. On December 1, the Metropolitan Policy Program and the Brown Center on Education Policy co-hosted a discussion on a new report, “Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools,” with two of its authors, Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Hill and University of Washington Research Associate Professor Marguerite Roza. Read More

Education, K-12 Education

Director, Brown Center


U.S. Department of Education file photo of Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst.

Save to My Portfolio Russ Whitehurst Named Director of the Brown Center on Education

October 16, 2008

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, director of the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education, is joining the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Brown Center on Education, Brookings President Strobe Talbott announced. Read More

Education, K-12 Education, Teachers, School Choice, School Privatization

SPOTLIGHT: Education


Reuters/Adam Hunger - Students raise their hands at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School during a class in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Save to My Portfolio The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra

Tom Loveless, September 22, 2008

More U.S. eighth grade students take algebra today than any other math course. However, universal eighth grade algebra is creating more problems than it solves, writes Tom Loveless, as some 120,000 middle-schoolers are now struggling in advanced classes for which they are woefully unprepared. Read More

Education, K-12 Education

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra

Tom Loveless, September 22, 2008

More U.S. eighth grade students take algebra today than any other math course. However, universal eighth grade algebra is creating more problems than it solves, writes Tom Loveless, as some 120,000 middle-schoolers are now struggling in advanced classes for which they are woefully unprepared. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio High-Achieving Students in the Era of No Child Left Behind

Tom Loveless, June 18, 2008

Tom Loveless offers an analysis on the achievement trends for high-achieving students (defined, like low-achieving students, by their performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP) since the early 1990s and, in more detail, since 2000. Read More

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