A professor of sociology at UT Austin, Dr Chantal Hailey studies how micro decision-making contributes to larger macro segregation patterns and how racism creates, sustains, and exacerbates racial, ed...

The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem

The French government holds a crisis meeting as demonstrations grow and become violent in places.

It turns out you can trace America’s 2008 financial crash, in a roundabout way, to 18th-century Prussia. The Seven Years’ War left the kingdom in financial shambles: Just to afford the fighting, Pruss...

Discover how the Depository Trust Company (DTC) facilitates trade settlement and safekeeping through electronic record-keeping of securities worldwide.

Many public school facilities are outdated or poorly maintained. Facility issues, including plumbing leaks and extreme indoor temperatures, can...

Can a school fueled by competition ever deliver justice in a public school system built on inequality? In the wake of a mayoral campaign marked by critiques of systemic issues, New York assemblyman Zo...

We had a second kid recently and I was on baby duty this summer, taking some much needed time off to be with the little five month old, and as I walked...

That's a serious question! Minneapolis Public Schools confronts two simultaneous and related crises: a precipitous and ongoing decline in student enrollment, and a structural budget deficit with a na...

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Why are there so many snail farmers in London and narrow houses in Amsterdam? Former C. Lowell Harriss fellow Luc Hermans discusses the origins of the property tax, and how it can shape our environmen...

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Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.

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Podcast Episode · Budget Committee! · September 16 · 41m

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Purpose. Public pension funding levels have declined over the past two decades, yet stakeholders lack clear or comparable indicators of what has driven those changes or what the trend means for fiscal...

Public education is a foundational public good that is critical to our democracy: then why doesn't our country treat it as such?