U.S. postsecondary education is populated by hundreds of state and local affordability initiatives sometimes referred to as “Promise programs”, many of which claim to make college free or tuition-free...

The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted.

There is an increasing consensus that firm-specific premia are an important determinant of wages, but there is little evidence regarding their roles i…

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The Advanced Placement (AP) program was originally designed to provide advanced coursework to intellectually able students while still in high school.…

By Laurence Boone, Boris Cournède, OECD Economics Department; and Marissa Plouin, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs  Following a period when homele…

(December 2024) - We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration ...

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2023 TIMSS results show fewer U.S. students in the middle, a re-emergent gender gap and a silver lining

How much postsecondary education costs families, and how much is publicly financed, varies immensely across countries and the proper balance is hotly debated. The United States, despite having a hi...

Given their lower costs, community colleges are the most accessible postsecondary institutions for undocumented students. Emerging “free community college” (i.e. Promise) programs could therefore b...