Jon Valant and co-authors assess who will benefit from the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit—and why policymakers should be worried.

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The final season of the SundanceTV series uses deep Christian themes in telling the story of an ex-convict who is unequipped for freedom.

CPS enrollment has been on the decline for more than two decades. This year's drop of 11,500 students, one of the largest one-year drops in more than a decade, amid the federal immigrant deportation c...

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At Tuesday’s Champaign County board meeting, the chair of the board said the county has no data centers planned. And during public comment, residents asked for help to fund a skilled nursing facility.

Schools have more employees per student than they used to. At the same time, teachers have seen little real pay growth.

The University of Illinois System’s fall enrollment has topped 102,000 for the first time, extending its string of record fall enrollments, with growth driven largely by new in-state undergraduates....

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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…

Join Getting Down to Facts III researchers for a closer look at the evidence from this landmark independent study of California’s education system. Drawing on 55 technical reports and 22 research brie...

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Teacher and administrator numbers in Missouri are skyrocketing while student enrollment falls. Could this 'personnel boom' be costing teachers raises? Find out how much more they could earn.

The Nobel prize-winning economist robustly defends his research and core ideas

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