In an article in The Providence Journal, Director of the Urban Education Policy program, Kenneth Wong, comments on wide gaps between graduation rates and SAT scores in Rhode Island high schools. "It's important for the districts and the commissioner to communicate why this is important, that it's clearly connected to college and career readiness."

The number of words a child is exposed to in the first four years of life can have a huge impact on brain development, language skills and school readiness.

The Annenberg Institute and the Department of Education are searching to jointly hire a tenure-line faculty position in Urban Education Policy at the Assistant or Associate rank.

In a new article published by the Urban Affairs Review, Assistant Professor of Education Jonathan Collins examines the way in which teachers form assessments of schools and districts that motivate their political behavior. The new theory proposed and tested in this article centers on deliberative democracy.

At Brown, Rainbow Chen '21 is able to combine her love of learning with her commitment to social change and making a difference.