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    Charter Question Splits Suburbs — Even Suburbs With No Charter Schools

    Charter Question Splits Suburbs — Even Suburbs With No Charter Schools

    November 3, 2016

    WBUR—Edify | Features Tom Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education, who says he will vote 'yes" on 2, lifting the cap on charter schools, because he believes they'll provide opportunities to disadvantaged students: “The people who are most affected by this are the most in favor of it,” Kane says. “And the people who are the least affected by it are the people who are most opposed to it, but I think it’s because of a misunderstanding of what the issues are.” [Text and audio]

    Chicago violence changes how children make friends

    Chicago violence changes how children make friends

    March 28, 2017

    Crain's Chicago Business | By Anjanette M. Chan Tack and Mario L. Small. Discussion of the authors' new in-depth case study, recently published in Sociological Science, which interviewed African American students in high poverty Chicago neighborhoods about how they form friendships. "What we uncovered surprised us," Chan Tack and Small write.

    Small is Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology at Harvard. Chan Tack is a doctoral candidate at University of Chicago. 

    Christopher Jencks: Big Picture Directions for Future Research and Policy on the Problem of Poverty

    Christopher Jencks: Big Picture Directions for Future Research and Policy on the Problem of Poverty

    May 20, 2016

    2nd Annual New Frontiers in Poverty Research Conference at Columbia University | Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, and Sheldon Danziger, President of the Russell Sage Foundation, were the keynote speakers at the 2nd Annual New Frontiers in Poverty Research Conference at Columbia University.

    Christopher Wimer (Ph.D. '07), Co-Director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia's Population Research Center, spoke about his latest work with Columbia colleagues, "Harnessing the Robin Hood Poverty Tracker to Understand New Dimensions of Poverty in New York City."

    View video: Conference begins at 12:35 minute mark. Jencks's session begins at 3:26 hour mark.

    Edward Glaeser

    City Slicker

    December 15, 2019

    IMF Finance and Development | Chris Wellisz profiles Harvard’s Edward Glaeser, who sees urbanization as a path to prosperity. Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics.

    Clinton Abandons the Middle on Education

    Clinton Abandons the Middle on Education

    August 14, 2016

    Wall Street Journal | By Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West. Most rank-and-file Democrats disagree with the party platform, Peterson and West argue, drawing from a survey to be published next week in Education Next. Peterson is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard. West (Ph.D. '06) is Associate Professor of Education.

    Column: Don't be fooled. Clinton and Democrats have their own race problem.

    Column: Don't be fooled. Clinton and Democrats have their own race problem.

    August 16, 2016

    PBS NewsHour | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. "The extremism of Donald Trump somewhat obscures the complex role that race has played in Hillary Clinton’s campaign," Rigueur writes.  Second in a series of perspectives in advance of Thursday's 2016 Hutchins Forum: Race and the Race to the White House, in which Rigueur is a panelist.  PBS NewsHour will live-stream the forum here.

    Comeback Cities

    Comeback Cities

    May 21, 2015

    Centre for Cities (London) | Edward Glaeser lecture and discussion with BBC Newsnight economics correspondent Duncan Weldon. Audio and slides available; event video coming soon.

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