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Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools takes a look at a suburban public high school that appears to be the utopia of racial equity to understand the disconnect between good intentions and real world outcomes for minority students. Chapters 1-6 are original to the book’s first edition, published in 2015, while Chapters 7 and 8 are updates and lessons learned. This is a book most will want to read slowly, with breaks for reflection and consideration.

Seungyeon Jung is a Doctoral Student Affiliate from the Sociology department.

As Rhode Island phases in a tougher math graduation requirement, this brief examines how districts are shifting Algebra 1 to 8th grade — and what's standing in the way.

More than 9 million students had school disrupted by climate change last year. Researchers at Brown University have launched the SustainableED initiative to study what rising temperatures will mean for our education system.

Matthew Kraft, professor of education and economics at Brown University, joins The Education Gadfly Show to discuss the intersection of education policy and climate change.

SustainableED Researchers Matthew Kraft, Sohil Malik, and Grace Falken present the case for climate change being an education policy issue in this Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard article. The article also features a school environmental hazard lookup tool to assess climate risks in your own community.

Ben Delgado

Join us for a provocative conversation with Dr. Mica Pollock, who will share findings from two of professor John Diamond’s major studies on these issues.

The recording is now available from Brian Jacob's September 30 talk in the Annenberg Institute Education Policy Seminar Series.

Teaching faces a workforce crisis — and two very different levers for addressing it. Pam Grossman, former dean of Penn’s Graduate School of Education and chair of the Spencer Foundation board, examines what philanthropy and state policy can each do for the profession.

Women in Academia Report covers Prudence Carter receiving the American Sociological Association's 2026 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, honoring a sustained record of contributions to social justice and scholarship on racial inequality.

The New York Times ranks 30 ideas for improving U.S. schools, based on a survey of education researchers.

Futurity covers Brown research on schools near environmental hazard sites and the students most exposed.

A screening of Counted Out, a documentary on math literacy as a source of social and economic power, hosted with RIDE and RISSA. Wednesday, November 4, 4 p.m., Cranston West High School.

Beth Boulay

A talk on how heat and air pollution affect student learning, and what school infrastructure can do.

A talk on how environmental disasters disrupt schooling, and what communities need to recover.

M. Patricia Fabian on lessons from the first U.S. school districts monitoring classroom air quality in real time.

Oren Pizmony-Levy on public opinion toward climate change education and what educators get wrong about it.

Brown's Economics department is hiring a Pre-Doctoral Research Associate to work with Jesse Bruhn on the long-run economic well-being of young people. Priority deadline October 31.