While AI may transform how students learn, it is unlikely to address underlying inequalities that shape educational ...
Inequality in education is a defining challenge of our time. Around the world, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are far more likely to underperform in school than are students ...
The demographic dynamics in India and China have major impacts on global economic development. Seeking to reassess the demographic race between the two countries with a focus on human capital and ...
If education is, in Horace Mann’s words, “the great equalizer,” why hasn’t a substantial increase in spending on education and a sharp rise in college attendance and graduation rates narrowed the ...
I was dismayed to recently encounter this headline in The New York Times: “Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says.” The Times story highlighted a UNESCO report ...
Young people all throughout the country have expressed concern about education inequality, recognizing that access to quality education is not equal for all students. Education inequality in the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erik Sherman reports on business, economics, finance, tech, and law. “Education pays,” says the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...
I've been trying to figure out how I missed Paul Tough's The Inequality Machine until now. The book is such a lucid, compelling and tightly argued critique of elite higher ed that you'd think it would ...
Children in Ireland experienced one of the longest school closures among rich countries during the first wave of the pandemic. School children lost 141 days of face-to-face instruction during the 2019 ...