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Beyond the Education Wars
Beyond the Education Wars: Evidence That Collaboration Builds Effective Schools

By Greg Anrig

While the “education wars” dominate media coverage of school reform debates, largely unnoticed research is mounting that student outcomes are strongest in districts pursuing intensive collaboration among teachers and administrators [...]

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Rethinking the Financial Crisis
Rethinking the Financial Crisis

By Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Lo, Robert M. Solow, editors

In its wide-ranging inquiry into the financial crash, Rethinking the Financial Crisis marshals an impressive collection of rigorous and yet empirically-relevant research that, in some respects, upsets the conventional wisdom about the [...]

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A Better Affirmative Action
A Better Affirmative Action: State Universities That Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences

By Richard D. Kahlenberg, Halley Potter

The U.S. Supreme Court case Fisher v. Texas could dramatically alter or eliminate race-based admissions policies at colleges and universities. In a new report, A Better Affirmative Action, Senior Fellow Richard [...]

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The Politics of Voter Suppression
The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote

By Tova Wang

The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms [...]

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