For decades, some Boston students have traveled to suburban schools through Metco. New research finds strikingly large benefits years later.

Arnold Ventures’ Evidence + Evaluation team is hosting an interactive 45-minute webinar to share more about our grant funding opportunities. The next several years present an important opportunity t...

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

With student achievement still below pre-pandemic levels and states poised to remake key education policies, Arnold Ventures is launching a new request…

Two teams, nearly the same question, nearly the same data—and a revealing difference in what the papers ask the evidence to do

The fellowship supports graduate students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in education research—including, but not limited to, African Americans, Alaskan Natives, American ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded what every state, county, city and township raises and spends since 1967, and it has been effectively out of reach. Today we are re-releasing it as a free API, an interactive explorer and a bulk download, aligned across 56 years so a query returns a continuous series. It is a record you can contribute to.

Author Natasha Warikoo says that most Americans believe in achieving greater diversity and equity and that the Trump administration has not permanently defeated those causes.

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A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

(August 2026) - Using an event-study design, we examine whether states' introduction of duty-to-bargain requirements for police unions led to meaningful changes in civilians killed by law enforcement....

Knox County recently backtracked on its decision to remove the critically acclaimed book "Roots" from school libraries. Now, education leaders are asking that the law spurring the removal be revised.

(June 2023) - This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's <em>The Birth of a Nation</em>, a fictional portrayal of the KKK's fou...