Ezra Klein Archive: Education
The three essential truths of public policy according to James Heckman
Nobel laureate James Heckman has spent years studying how we can invest in people so that the money actually make a measurable, positive difference in their lives. What he’s learned (pdf) can be summed up in two words: Start early.
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| March 7, 2011; 3:27 PM ET |
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Forget smaller class sizes, part III
Dana Goldstein takes a look at classroom sizes across advanced countries, and concludes that "that small class size is not clearly correlated with high achievement -- and neither is large class size." But she also reminds the wonks that...
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| March 1, 2011; 2:34 PM ET |
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Forget smaller classes -- what about bigger ones?
Bill Gates isn't a fan of the conventional wisdom that smaller class sizes mean better education. "This belief has driven school budget increases for more than 50 years. U.S. schools have almost twice as many teachers per student as...
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| February 28, 2011; 10:40 AM ET |
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What's an elite education worth? (Part II)
A decade ago, two economists -- Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger -- published a research paper arguing that elite colleges did not seem to give most graduates an earnings boost. As you might expect, the paper received a ton of...
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| February 21, 2011; 10:16 AM ET |
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What's an elite education worth?
At the beginning? Quite a bit. Over time? Not as much. In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a...
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| February 11, 2011; 5:43 PM ET |
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Who does higher education spending help?
Let's say Mississippi decides to spend a lot of money to help its four-year colleges graduate more students ready to join the cutting-edge of technological research. Who does that help? Well, the students, of course. And those of us who...
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| January 18, 2011; 11:11 AM ET |
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