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Brains, Schools, and a Vicious Cycle of Poverty

May 13, 2015

Wall Street Journal | Reviews study co-authored by Martin R. West (faculty and Ph.D. '06) on poverty, brain development, and test score gaps.

Why integrating America's neighborhoods and cities is harder than we think

May 15, 2015

Slate | Article discussing new experimental research by sociologist Maria Krysan (University of Illinois, Chicago) cites earlier related research by Devah Pager.

How Your Hometown Affects Your Chances of Marriage

May 15, 2015

New York Times | Explores marriage findings in Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren's recently released research on the effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children's long-term outcomes. Raj Chetty, the Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard, first presented this work in the Malcolm Wiener Seminar, Jan 26, 2015.

The Real Story of the American Family

May 14, 2015

The American Prospect | Review of Robert Putnam's Our Kids and Andrew Cherlin's Labor's Love Lost.

Left Out

May 21, 2015

Boston Review | Robert Putnam. Claude S. Fischer reviews Robert Putnam's Our Kids and Andrew Cherlin's Labor's Love Lost.

My Head Start

May 19, 2015

Huffington Post | On the 50th anniversary of Head Start, Ford Foundation president Darren Walker reflects on his own personal experience and cites research by David Deming (Faculty and Ph.D. '10)

Askwith Forum: Transforming Teaching

May 11, 2015

Harvard Graduate School of Education| Jal Mehta (Faculty and Ph.D. '06) moderated this Askwith Forum with Anthony Bryk (President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), Jeff Duncan-Andrade (Co-founder, Teaching Excellence Network), and Randi Weingarten (President, American Federation of Teachers).