CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane speaks to the Harvard Gazette about recent teacher tenure lawsuits in California and New York.... Read more about Targeting Teacher Tenure
The Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $5 million to the University of Colorado Boulder, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, and Northwestern University to create a new center that will study how educational leaders—including school district supervisors and principals—use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.... Read more about CU-Boulder, Harvard, and Northwestern Launch Center to Study How Educational Leaders Use Research
CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane proposes conducting a modern day Flexner report on teacher preparation in order to provide evidence for a new model program in the following Brookings Institution paper.... Read more about A Flexner Report on Teacher Preparation
On Thursday, January 16, 2014, the White House released the report, Increasing College Opportunity for Low-Income Students, and held a summit on college opportunity, hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.... Read more about CEPR Researchers Featured in White House Report