Education Next

A new NBER working paper finds that black students who have just one black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate and more likely to enroll in college. This can be added to the growing list of studies finding that black students who have black teachers reap benefits in both the short term and the long term.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed new rules for how colleges are to handle cases of sexual assault and harassment. In an article for Education Next, Shep Melnick explains how the federal government came to use Title IX directives and investigations to respond to the problem of sexual assault on college campuses and explores what a less partisan approach to this issue might look like.