🚨 New Brookings Brown Center article by Jing Liu, Cameron Conrad, and David Blazar explores how 'Computer Science for All' initiatives affect students' college and career outcomes. Check it out! 👇

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''It’s the lowest-income students, the first-generation students, who don’t have additional resources to guide them through this process, who are ultimately paying the price for this [FAFSA] rollout,' said Katharine Meyer.'

Via The 74:
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Encouraging more academically talented, lower-income students to apply to and enroll at selective colleges could be an important driver of financial opportunity and greater equity in the United States, argue Kelli Bird and Ben Castleman.
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'About half — 48% — of all public school teachers have children living at home, according to an analysis of data spanning 2012-16 by the Brookings Institution’s Mike Hansen and Diana Diana Quintero.'
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Check out our piece about the relationship between hearing anti Critical Race Theory (CRT) policy narratives, public opinion, and trust in public schools with Melissa Arnold Lyon (Mimi) and Rebecca Jacobsen!

Debates about critical race theory (CRT) in the classroom may not be as prevalent today as they were in 2021, but school districts are still navigating the fallout from them.

To date, at least 18 states and 150 school districts have adopted a CRT ban.
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''In the long run, I think there’s every hope and expectation that this FAFSA simplification will deliver on its promise to get more low-income students into college,' said Katharine Meyer. 'But the class of 2024 is being rocked really hard.''
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Without teachers in Career and Technical Education subjects, many high-quality courses and programs cannot be offered, impacting students’ prospects in the near term, and potentially hindering economic growth later, warn Hannah C. Kistler and Dr. Shaun M. Dougherty.
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President Biden’s FY 2025 budget proposal serves not only as a roadmap for negotiations but a chance to outline his priorities for a second term. Brookings Brown Center experts share their thoughts on the proposed Department of Education budget. brookings.edu/articles/brown…

Tomorrow Sec. Cardona goes before the House to present the Biden administration's FY 25 ED budget.

Brookings Brown Center scholars reflect on the budget proposal and what the research says about these initiatives:
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Without Congress and the states actively engaging in a wholescale reevaluation of college affordability, it is nearly impossible for structural, lasting change to occur, argues Dominique J. Baker.
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In new research, education experts study how gentrification impacts elementary school desegregation in three California cities, proposing housing and education policies to foster school desegregation in gentrifying areas. brookings.edu/articles/gentr…

Chronic student absenteeism is a major challenge for public K-12 education, as 30% of U.S. students were chronically absent in 2021-22 (double the pre-COVID-19 average) with minor improvements in 2022-23, write Anna Rosefsky Saavedra , Morgan Polikoff 🏳️‍🌈, and Dan Silver.
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The U.S. Department of Education found a calculation error on hundreds of thousands of FAFSA applications.

Katharine Meyer emphasizes the crucial role of school counselors in helping students access financial aid and navigating the revised FAFSA process effectively. brookings.edu/articles/schoo…

A college education is sometimes described as an elevator of social mobility, but not all students get the same benefit from college.

Richard Startz takes a look at how participation in college majors is associated with social inequality.
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High-poverty high schools are less likely than low-poverty high schools to offer a range of civics-focused extracurricular activities, find Melissa Kay Diliberti and Stephani L. Wrabel.

More here: brookings.edu/articles/many-…

Participation in extracurricular activities is one proven practice for effective civic learning. Melissa Kay Diliberti and Stephani L. Wrabel examine the prevalence of activities like debate teams and student government across U.S. high schools. brookings.edu/articles/many-…

By the same logic we shouldn’t celebrate sub-prime voucher schools breaking even on HS graduation rates while causing some of the worst academic declines in the history of education research.

As I wrote Brookings Brown Center last year:
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A settlement between Nex Benedict's school and U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights would be inadequate, particularly in a state where the state superintendent opposes inclusivity for LGBTQ+ youth, says Rachel Perera. thehill.com/homenews/educa…

'Disparities in compensation remain even among teachers who are paid for performing extra work: Male teachers earned almost twice as much as women for taking on those duties, Mike Hansen said.'
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