Education
Real-Time Placement Odds Can Smooth the School Choice Process
Some families going through the school placement process overestimate their chances of getting into their top choices, and fail to match at any school as a result. Warnings about the placement odds at top schools can dramatically reduce non-placements.
What’s the Value of Higher Education?
Have political and fiscal debates about higher education lost sight of the value of education for individuals and society?
What Will It Take to Fix Public Education?
Are we making progress toward a better and more equitable education system? Yale Insights talked with former secretary of education John King, now president and CEO of the Education Trust.
Seniors Aren’t Learning to Choose Better Prescription Insurance Plans
Seniors picking prescription plans through Medicare Part D often aren’t choosing the plans that offer the best value.
How do you run a large school district?
The newly appointed superintendent of New Haven Public Schools talked with Yale Insights about what kind of leadership is needed in education.
Can educational success scale?
Efforts to improve the U.S. educational system come from all directions, ranging from the president’s Race to the Top program to PTO bake sales. But debate rages about what efforts are genuinely effective. We talked with an expert with first-hand experience building successful schools for one perspective.
Is the Gates Foundation remaking education
Hilary Pennington '83 is the Gates Foundation's director for special initiatives. She talked with Qn about leading the foundation’s effort to build the country’s social capital by rethinking postsecondary education and the challenges faced by the nonprofit sector in this economic climate.
