By Walter G. Ecton, Shaun M. DoughertyIncreasing the diversity of students in Ph.D. programs is crucial to creating a pipeline of future researchers and educators in the nation’s system of...

By Martha NussbaumSo far we have traced the evolution of legal standards for sexual assault and sexual harassment, and their current defects and challenges. There is, however, a significant area...

By Richard V. Reeves, Ember SmithIn 1972, when the U.S. government passed the landmark Title IX laws to promote gender equality in education, there was a 12 percentage-point gap in...

By Cody Christensen, Lesley J. Turner Community colleges play an important role in providing access to higher education and promoting economic mobility by offering postsecondary opportunities to a wide range...

By Edem Dorothy OssaiThis policy brief highlights ways that a gender-responsive perspective can be fully incorporated into planning, policy design, and implementation models for education in emergencies (EiE) in Nigeria,...

By Michael Hansen, Emiliana Vegas, Fred DewsComputer science education in K-12 schools matters, not because it’s about training the next generation of computer programmers, but because computer science education builds...

By Julie Cohen, Vivian WongTeaching is complex and sophisticated work. Unfortunately, we have limited time—sometimes less than a calendar year—to prepare novice teachers to do this work well. As a...

By John R. Allen, Ryan Hass, Bruce JonesExecutive Summary The Brookings – China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) Dialogue began in 2019 against the backdrop of the 40th anniversary...

By Alex BerkeAlex Berke is currently a researcher at the MIT Media Lab in the City Science Group. Her recent research focuses on privacy-preserving ways to leverage large datasets, commonly collected by private companies,...

Computer science skills are increasingly necessary to function in today’s technology-advanced world—from learning how to problem-solve to applying to jobs to preparing students for a future of active citizenship. Beyond...