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Gender-equitable investment in education is an economic imperative world-education-blog.org/2026/03/09/g...
Using a school reform that increased the length of compulsory schooling reveals that education causes higher returns in the labor market.
By Fagereng, Guiso, Holm, Pistaferri
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While many currencies portray images of national heroes, Singapore’s 2 dollar bill shows students in a classroom. Underneath, there is just one word, Education. Singapore is #1 in most int'l student assessments
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Never Close the Schools Again. I saw an ad for this book by Irvin Studin. This line caught my attention:
“the largest simultaneous policy and administrative move in human history” describing the COVID-19 pandemic era school closure of 2020-2022
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How did Mississippi go from being ranked 49th in the nation for reading to 9th?
youtube.com/shorts/zCaIw... via @YouTube
Smoking Patterns and the Widening US Mortality Gap
@nberpubs www.nber.org/digest?page=...
TEACHER VOICE: We don’t have a math problem in Arkansas or in the United States. We have a culture problem hechingerreport.org/math-learnin...
Department of Education Reform February 2026 Newsletter
Department of Education Reform February 2026 Newsletter
Department of Education Reform February 2026 Newsletter
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The economist tackling the global learning crisis @angrist_noam
boldscience.org/the-economis...
Just out in the new look IZA series my paper w/ Angelica Rivera. We use 1987 Compulsory Schooling Law as instrument to estimate returns to schooling. Reform increased schooling among compliers by 0.6–0.7 years and yields a return of 11.7% > OLS
docs.iza.org/dp18364.pdf
Another benefit of cash transfers: sleep -- household heads surveyed just after an unconditional cash transfer report a 0.4 standard deviation improvement in sleep quality compared to those surveyed just before
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Arkansas Will Soon Hold Back Kids Who Can’t Read. But That Alone Is Not Enough
www.the74million.org/article/arka...
New in The 74: Arkansas’ 3rd-grade retention is coming — but retention isn’t the reform
Arkansas is about to implement a high-stakes element of the Right to Read Act: beginning this summer, third-graders who aren’t reading proficiently can be retained. That reality is creating understandable…
Research from Mississippi shows 3rd-graders who struggle with literacy need intensive interventions both before and after they are retained
www.the74million.org/article/arka...
Arkansas Will Soon Hold Back Kids Who Can’t Read. But That Alone Is Not Enough www.the74million.org/article/arka...
Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools
Adjusted for student poverty, southern states are beating the rest www.economist.com/united-state...
Worth the read: “we need an open, dynamic system where educators have the freedom to design new schools — and parents have the power to choose among them” @nytimes.com opinion by Jorge Elorza
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
Launching the Human Capital & Education Returns (HCER) Lab at @UArkansas EDRE.
We study the real economic returns to education — using causal methods, global data, and U.S. evidence — to inform policy and finance decisions.
edre.uark.edu/humancapital...
📘 Just published: Learning for All Luminos Fund’s white paper on advancing inclusion in low-learning contexts. It offers a practical, evidence-based framework to ensure every child can access joyful, foundational learning. Read it here 👉 luminosfund.org/blog/learnin...
The Southern Surge:
These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling
by @NickKristof
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...
Mark Carney: Listens to The Clash, loves London Calling
(youtube.com/watch?v=TZmh...)
National 'Edu-Scholar' Impact Rankings Feature Five Education Reform Faculty Members url:https://news.uark.edu/articles/80711
Department of Education Reform: Impact in Arkansas
Our latest newsletter highlights how the Department of Education Reform, Arkansas Teacher Corps, and the Office for Education Policy are making a real impact across Arkansas. This month’s spotlight features new research on the returns to education…
How to boost learning in low-income countries -- "with an average annual spending of just $55 per child (PPP$172), spending on education in LICs is in stark contrast even to lower-middle income countries" blogs.worldbank.org/en/education... via @WorldBank
On International Day of Education, we’re reminded that education isn’t just a right — it’s an economic investment with measurable returns. My paper on the returns to schooling documents how education boosts earnings and economic outcomes globally: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How hard is tutoring to get right? @MichaelPetrilli brings together scholars to discuss. I was proud to contribute.
schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/how-hard-i...
Honored that our COVID-19 learning loss paper (published in Science of Learning) was highlighted in Springer Nature’s “Top Posts from the Research Communities in 2025: A Year in Review.”
Read here: shorturl.at/XiH62
Our new @Glabor_org working paper:
The Returns to Education in Arkansas
Evidence from the 1987 Compulsory Education Law
ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/glodps...
Can More Schooling Change How We Act on Climate?
I’m pleased to share a new paper, co-authored with Diego Ambasz and Anshuman Gupta, A review of human development and environmental outcomes. Although there is now substantial research on how climate and environmental conditions affect human…