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A Third Way: Lessons on the Politics of School District Turnaround from Lawrence, Massachusetts

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Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy | By Beth Schueler (Ph.D. '16). Schueler is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Does more rigorous middle school math coursework change students’ college readiness?

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Brookings Institution | By Shaun M. Dougherty, Joshua S. Goodman, Darryl V. Hill, Erica Litke, and Lindsay C. Page. Joshua Goodman is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Five Big Ideas in Inequality Lunch Series

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This week: Inequality and Criminal Justice WEEK 4 IN THE SERIES View the video » Danielle Allen Harvard University Monica C. Bell Yale Law School Cornell William Brooks Harvard Kennedy School Sandra Susan Smith Harvard Kennedy School Vesla M. Weaver Johns...

Should Policymakers Care Whether Inequality is Helpful or Harmful for Growth?

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Peterson Institute for International Economics | Presentation by Jason Furman (Harvard Kennedy School) at PIIE's "Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy Conference," with discussion by Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School), Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and Justin...

Will Manufacturing Jobs Come Back?

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EconoFact | By David Deming (Ph.D '10), Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Voting rights, unsettled

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Harvard Gazette | Interview with Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School."Let me also make a distinction between disenfranchisement and voter suppression. ... What’s going on now is mostly a...

Can Investing in Public Colleges Serve as an Infrastructure Project?

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EconoFact | By David Deming (Ph.D. '10), Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy Receives $2.5 Million Gift

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Harvard Kennedy School | Harvard Kennedy School has received a $2.5 million gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation to support new and ongoing work to address wealth concentration and the broader problems of inequality. The gift supports...

Elizabeth Linos

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Dr. Elizabeth Linos is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor for Public Policy and Management, and Faculty Director of The People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Dean Douglas Elmendorf: Understanding the Congressional Budget Office

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Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center | Doug Elmendorf, Dean of Harvard Kennedy School and former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2009-2015, discussed why the CBO exists, how it works, and how the media reports on its findings...

Ten Big Ideas: Inequality & Wealth Concentration

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10 Big Ideas. 8 minutes each. Infinite possibilities. Thursday, Oct 13, 2016, at Harvard Kennedy School Ten Harvard faculty members from across Harvard University's social sciences share 10 Big Ideas on inequality and wealth concentration Bringing...

The Diploma Gap: Growing Costs of an Unfinished College Education

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EconoFact | By David Deming, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Education and Economics at Harvard Graduate School of Education.