Does High School Success Automatically Translate to College Success?
Advanced high school coursework may not be worth it unless you take calculus. Courses like advanced psychology, sociology, even physics and economics, don’t appear to...
Brookings Institution
Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education | Fact 10
Some states spend a lot to instruct their public school students; others spend relatively little. Although money isn’t a silver bullet—poor districts that receive cash...
Economic Facts that Affect Your Child’s Education: Fact 8
However, some states with similar shares of low-income students have very different levels of proficiency. For example, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey all have a...
Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education: Troubling Fact # 7
States with fewer poor students get more antipoverty funding than states with more poor students....
More Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education: Fact 5
One year of additional schooling lowers the probability of a student later being unemployed by 3.6 percentage points, of being on welfare by 5.5 percentage...
Fact 2. Economic Facts You Need to Know
The skills premium--the difference in earnings between low and high-skilled workers--is one of the economic facts the Hamilton Project report explores....
Economic Facts You Need to Know
Early childhood experience can cast a long shadow over a person's life--for good or ill. The Hamilton Project has identified 14 critical economic facts....
Why Do Boys in Areas of Income Inequality Drop Out More?
Low income students in states of higher inequality are more likely to drop out of high school than are low income students in states of...
The Upper-Middle Class Looks Out for Itself
In a provocative post, the Brookings Institution examines how the upper middle class is pulling away from, if not ahead of, the rest of American...