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The Parent Trap

How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis

by Nate G. Hilger

ISBN: 9780262545945

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 4, 2023

On how parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society. A Next Big Idea Club nominee.

Giving Kids a Fair Chance

by James J. Heckman

ISBN: 9780262535052

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 8, 2017

A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?

School Choice International

Exploring Public-Private Partnerships

Edited by Rajashri Chakrabarti and Paul E. Peterson

ISBN: 9780262033763

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 5, 2008

Analyses and studies of public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world.

Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem

Edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson

ISBN: 9780262232579

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 25, 2007

Leading researchers from the United States and Europe report on new findings on the effect of education on equal opportunity, using economic and statistical techniques to assess the results of education policy reform in countries including the United States, Britain, Sweden, Germany, and Italy.

Educating All Children

A Global Agenda

Edited by Joel E. Cohen, David E. Bloom and Martin B. Malin

ISBN: 9780262532938

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 22, 2006

Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize...