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Forum: What Is Education For?

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Boston Review | By Danielle Allen, Professor of Government and of Education. Reducing inequality, Allen argues, requires more than the dissemination of technical skills. "The civic conception of education...begins with the recognition that fair economic...

Education in the Trump Presidency

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HGSE Usable Knowledge | Five faculty members, inluding Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Economics and Education, share their thoughts on the election and its implications for education. "As the mushroom cloud of uncertainty settles on Washington...

When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times

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Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in education gradients in income, self-reported health, life satisfaction, obesity, smoking and drinking. While this variation has been documented previously, the reasons why...

Deming Named Professor of Education

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Harvard Graduate School of Education | Associate Professor David Deming (Ph.D. '10) has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Deming is an economist interested in educational inequality and the impact of education...

The Race between Education and Technology

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Delving into The Race between Education and Technology (Harvard University Press, 2008) and its significance. A discussion with economists Claudia Goldin (Harvard University) and Lawrence F. Katz (Harvard University) of their latest book, which traces the...

Olivia Chi: Emerging Education Policy Scholars program

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Thomas B. Fordham Institute | Olivia Chi, a PhD candidate in Education, has been selected for the 2018-2019 cohort of Emerging Education Policy Scholars, a program of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and American Enterprise Insitute that brings together...

Clinton Abandons the Middle on Education

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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...

AERA Early Career Award in Educational Policy

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Awardee | Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. in Public Policy '09), Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, is the 2016 recipient of the American Educational Research Association Early Career Award in Educational...

Amelia Peterson: Emerging Education Policy Scholars program

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Thomas B. Fordham Institute | Amelia Peterson a PhD candidate in Education, has been selected for the 2017-2018 cohort of Emerging Education Policy Scholars, a program of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and American Enterprise Insitute that brings...

The Establishment Clause and Public Education in an Islamophobic Era

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The public education system has often been considered a critically important site for inter-ethnic dialogue designed to root out the prejudice that leads to discrimination against ethnic minorities. However, the prohibition of certain religious practices...

Early Career Award in Education Finance and Policy

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Awardee | David Deming, faculty member and alum (Ph.D. '10) David Deming, Associate Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has won the 2015 Early Career Award from the Association for Education Finance and Policy...

Jal Mehta Promoted to Professor of Education

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Harvard Graduate School of Education | Jal Mehta PhD 2006 has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The author most recently of In Search of Deeper Learning (Harvard University Press, 2019), Mehta focuses on the...