Education Policy and the Separate Roles of Race and Social Class in Inequality
In Monday morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Rick Kahlenberg makes a case for class-based affirmative action in U.S. colleges and universities. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at TCF, joins a number...
View ArticleMap: Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $9 Would Increase Worker Pay in 49...
In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama surprised Washington with a bold plan to raise the federal minimum wage, arguing that "in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works...
View ArticleSorting Out the Early Childhood Research
Megan McArdle is raising concerns about President Obama‘s proposal for high-quality, universal preschool, arguing that successful programs with proven long-term benefits are also highly expensive and...
View ArticleTCF: Your Destination for Education Policy
It’s been an eventful week for our education policy fellows and contributors here at The Century Foundation. Senior Fellow Rick Kahlenberg kicked off the week by asking “How Much Do You Pay for...
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Graph: How Inflation Erodes the Minimum Wage (And Why It’s Time to Raise It,...
A minimum wage of twenty-five cents was first introduced in the United States in 1933, as part of the New Deal-era National Industrial Recovery Act. Although that legislation was ruled...
View ArticleSenate Conservatives Blink on North Korea
Senate Republicans presumably hope that the ten-day delay they have forced on a vote to confirm their former colleague, Chuck Hagel, as secretary of defense may serve to ratchet up pressure on him...
View ArticleJust a Kindergarten Teacher
Last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother features an argument between Marshall and Lily about her career that speaks volumes about the current state of America’s educational system. (In case you...
View ArticleWhy Obama Is Right to Push for Universal Pre-K
In a recent post, Brookings Fellow Grover “Russ” Whitehurst offered an argument against public funding for universal pre-K. With President Obama calling for the federal government to work with states...
View ArticleMr. Barofsky Goes to Washington (And Doesn’t Like What He Finds)
Whatever else its long-term implications for the nation may be, the great recession of the twenty-first century has been a bonanza for books. Every aspect of the crisis has seemed to justify published...
View ArticleEducation Policy and the Separate Roles of Race and Social Class in Inequality
In Monday morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Rick Kahlenberg makes a case for class-based affirmative action in U.S. colleges and universities. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at TCF, joins a number...
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