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When the topic of the achievement gap comes up, the conversation invariably veers to all the out-of-school factors facing low-income students and students of color that are correlated with poorer outcomes on academic performance, high school graduation, and other measures. New research evidence...

Innovation is often associated with developments in information and communication technologies, but for economists, innovation is also about developing new business models and new ways for governments to deliver public services like health and education.

The key to improving young children’s vocabulary and math skills may lie in changing their parents’ beliefs. Studies find that better educated parents were significantly more likely than parents with lower levels of education to believe that activities such as telling stories to their children...

New findings based on two decades of research are reshaping how we understand the importance of neighborhood environments for adults and children, both contemporaneously and over the long-term.