Brown Center Chalkboard

The Brown Center Chalkboard is where Brookings scholars and guest authors bring evidence to bear on the pressing issues in U.S. education policy, politics, and practice.

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Education When will the US presidential candidates talk about teachers?

Travis J. Bristol

September 30, 2024

Accompanied by family members, children arrive back to school on the first day of the 2024-2025 City Public School year, in the Queens borough of New York City, NY, September 5, 2024.

Education Moving from a ‘parents’ bill of rights’ to a cross-partisan policy agenda to better support parents

Jon Valant

September 24, 2024

An accompanied student waits outside of his school after the masks policy for K through 12 was lifted, Queens, New York, NY, March 7, 2022.

Education Assessing evidence of academic recovery: Slight progress in math, hardly any in ELA

Megan Kuhfeld, Karyn Lewis

September 20, 2024

A hallway stands empty during a news conference at New Bridges Elementary School, ahead of schools reopening, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York, U.S., August 19, 2020.

Education Student-level attendance patterns show depth, breadth, and persistence of post-pandemic absenteeism

Tom Swiderski, Sarah Crittenden Fuller, Kevin C. Bastian

September 9, 2024

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