This piece was produced in part with the financial support of the Stone Inequality Initiative. Brown Political Review maintains editorial independence over all articles published. “We’re on the verge of a fiscal cliff,” said Maribeth Calabro, t...
Since his name entered contention as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz mania has swept the Democratic Party. One CBS poll found that 60 percent of Democratic voters were enthusiastic about the pick, while another 35 percent were...
This past summer, the “unschooling” trend took TikTok by storm, with videos of parents describing their various methodologies garnering millions of views. A lesson- and curriculum-free homeschooling style that claims to ensure a child’s educati...
2020 has been a tumultuous year. Even without considering COVID-19, the internal strife within the United States is at its explosive peak. The two parties are raging against each other, families are split down the middle, and political disagreements ...
2020 has been a tumultuous year. Even without considering COVID-19, the internal strife within the United States is at its explosive peak. The two parties are raging against each other, families are split down the middle, and political disagreements ...
Before the coronavirus pandemic, chronic absenteeism was a growing epidemic of its own kind that rocked schools across the country. Defined as missing fifteen or more days of a given school year, chronic absenteeism is a systemic issue with serious c...
Before the coronavirus pandemic, chronic absenteeism was a growing epidemic of its own kind that rocked schools across the country. Defined as missing fifteen or more days of a given school year, chronic absenteeism is a systemic issue with serious c...
In the pandemic-era scramble of digital education delivery, the line between public and private has been unduly blurred. Remote learning has brought one particular learning tool — remote invigilance, or more colloquially “online proctoring” —...
In the pandemic-era scramble of digital education delivery, the line between public and private has been unduly blurred. Remote learning has brought one particular learning tool — remote invigilance, or more colloquially “online proctoring” —...
K-12 students are adapting to completing their curriculum from their bedrooms against the backdrop of the snowballing social, physical, and mental traumas caused by COVID-19. They’re missing their friends; they’re fatigued by gazing on a gallery ...
K-12 students are adapting to completing their curriculum from their bedrooms against the backdrop of the snowballing social, physical, and mental traumas caused by COVID-19. They’re missing their friends; they’re fatigued by gazing on a gallery ...
The American college application system is fundamentally broken. For months, and sometimes even years, applicants labor over strategies, compile college lists, tabulate expenses, attend info sessions, and rewrite essays until words lose their meaning...
The American college application system is fundamentally broken. For months, and sometimes even years, applicants labor over strategies, compile college lists, tabulate expenses, attend info sessions, and rewrite essays until words lose their meaning...
Publicly funded prekindergarten is one of the few issues in our politically divided climate that has garnered bipartisan support. In liberal Rhode Island, Governor Gina Raimondo has pledged “a Pre-K seat for every four-year-old whose parents want i...
Publicly funded prekindergarten is one of the few issues in our politically divided climate that has garnered bipartisan support. In liberal Rhode Island, Governor Gina Raimondo has pledged “a Pre-K seat for every four-year-old whose parents want i...
In June of 2014, Barack Obama was featured in a YouTube video for the #CloseTheWordGap campaign in which he explained that “during the first three years of life, a child born into a low-income family hears 30 million fewer words than a child born i...
In June of 2014, Barack Obama was featured in a YouTube video for the #CloseTheWordGap campaign in which he explained that “during the first three years of life, a child born into a low-income family hears 30 million fewer words than a child born i...
It has been a turbulent four months in Providence after a devastating report diagnosing the epidemic dysfunction and subpar performance that plague the city’s public schools. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, with the support of Rhode...
It has been a turbulent four months in Providence after a devastating report diagnosing the epidemic dysfunction and subpar performance that plague the city’s public schools. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, with the support of Rhode...
For decades, college admission exams have been rightfully criticized as discriminatory gatekeeping mechanisms which prohibit access to higher education. While standardized testing has since evolved from its openly Darwinist origins, modern assessment...
For decades, college admission exams have been rightfully criticized as discriminatory gatekeeping mechanisms which prohibit access to higher education. While standardized testing has since evolved from its openly Darwinist origins, modern assessment...
New York City’s public school system is the most racially segregated in the nation. Several mayoral administrations have sought to tackle this issue: Mayor Michael Bloomberg implemented programs based on school choice, with the intention of helping...
New York City’s public school system is the most racially segregated in the nation. Several mayoral administrations have sought to tackle this issue: Mayor Michael Bloomberg implemented programs based on school choice, with the intention of helping...
College affordability is widely recognized as a pervasive issue in dire need of a policy cure, as demonstrated by the fact that nearly every Democratic candidate for president has put forth plans focused on achieving free tuition in public colleges. ...
College affordability is widely recognized as a pervasive issue in dire need of a policy cure, as demonstrated by the fact that nearly every Democratic candidate for president has put forth plans focused on achieving free tuition in public colleges. ...
On October 30, 2013, student grievances at Brown University reached a boiling point. When New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly arrived on campus that day to deliver a speech entitled “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City,” he w...
On October 30, 2013, student grievances at Brown University reached a boiling point. When New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly arrived on campus that day to deliver a speech entitled “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City,” he w...