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Turning a March into a Movement

March 9, 2017

HKS PolicyCast | If the Women’s March on Washington was a spark, what does it now take to fan that spark into a flame? In this week's roundtable discussion: Assistant Professor Leah Wright Rigueur, Women and Public Policy Program Executive Director Victoria Budson, and Adjunct Lecturer Tim McCarthy.



Tunnel Vision

March 20, 2017

NPR The Hidden Brain | This week on Hidden Brain, the psychological phenomenon of scarcity and how it can affect our ability to see the big picture and cope with problems in our lives. Features Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan and Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir, authors of Scarcity: Why Having So much Means So Little (Times Books, Henry Holt & Company, 2013). (Transcript + audio)

See also Harvard Magazine's feature on Sendhil Mullainathan, "The Science of Scarcity: A behavioral economist's fresh perspectives on poverty" (May-June 2015).



Tuition-Free College Could Cost Less Than You Think

July 19, 2019

The New York Times | By David Deming, Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. 



Tuition is now a useless concept in higher education

August 19, 2016

The Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, Professor of Government and Education. "Tuition decisions made by elite colleges and universities are actually decisions about whom to subsidize," Allen writes. "The lower the sticker price, the more the well-to-do are being subsidized for an education that costs well above the sticker price."




Trump’s weird adherence to this 1980s concept explains his whole presidency

May 28, 2017

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor. "We know where that story ends: with increased incarceration, further degradation of urban neighborhoods, no durable change in rates of drug use and a failure to address addiction," Allen writes.



Trump’s Education Pick: A Win for Public-School Parents

December 12, 2016

Wall Street Journal | By Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governnance at Harvard. Differences in satisfaction levels between parents with children in public schools versus private and charter schools—revealed in Education Next's 2016 national survey—suggest that school choice might be the answer for parents who want more for their kids, Peterson argues.



Trump’s Defective Industrial Policy

January 10, 2017

Project Syndicate | By Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.



Trumpism as a Transatlantic Phenomenon

March 8, 2016

The American Prospect | By Charlotte Cavaillé (Ph.D. '14), Noam Gidron (Ph.D. candidate in Government), and Peter A. Hall (Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies). Cavaillé is presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. She joins the Georgetown University faculty in July.



Trumpcast: What does Trump’s Victory Mean for Education Policy?

November 10, 2016

EdNext Podcast | Education Next’s Paul E. Peterson (Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government) and Martin West (Ph.D ''06, Associate Professor of Education) talk about what education reforms they expect from President-elect Donald Trump. Will he move on school choice, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, Title I portability, charter schools, or something entirely unexpected? 



Trump, Made in America

May 3, 2016

Le 1 Hebdo | By Bart Bonikowski, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Published in French as 'Un pur produit Américain'.

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