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The right to a free public K-12 education in the United States is enshrined in state constitutions. As a result, states play the lead role in K-12 education policy. For example, states determine how local public schools are funded (in large part, by providing significant funding to local districts), how educators are licensed to teach,…

Researchers Deja Thomas and Dean Bonner discuss key findings from the latest PPIC Statewide Survey, which examines Californians' views on the quality of K–12 public education, school funding and resources, and state officials' handling of the K–12 system.

The passage of the appropriations bill by the United States Congress has had major implications for future generations of New Mexicans by providing funding for the state's early childhood education constitutional amendment, which was adopted by the state legislature in 2021 and supported overwhelmingly by voters in 2022. The last step to finalizing the state's…

One of the biggest problems in K-12 education for a long time is how to help students who are already lagging behind in early grades catch up through middle-school and high-school, so that attending college, if they wish to do so, is a live possibility. As a result of the school closures during the pandemic, … Continue reading KIPP Schools and Lessons for Education Catch-up
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This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Ana Suárez Àlvarez and Ana Jesús López Menėndez. Click here to access the article. Family background characteristics and educational resources are crucial in shaping individuals' income. The unequal distribution of these resources is thus a potential source of inequality of income and opportunity. In… Continue reading What Role for Family and Education in Explaining Inequality? →

Since the election of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in the federal elections in India in 2014, the country's performance in key indicators of democratic quality has suffered. Over the course of its two terms in power, the party has sought to subvert key institutions for accountability, enact an ethno-cultural majoritarian electoral agenda, and use federal law enforcement agencies against their political opponents. While there is extensive literature on the erosion of civil-political rights in the past ten years, the effects of the BJP government on social rights like education and healthcare remain under-explored. Therefore, in this post, I explore three striking dimensions of primary educational policy under the BJP government.

Ultimately, policies should allow funding to follow students to freely selected institutions fitting their unique needs.

Ten years ago, California implemented the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in an effort to improve student outcomes and increase equity. PPIC president and CEO Tani Cantil-Sakauye and a panel of experts—Chief Deputy Cabinet Secretary Ben Chida, Assemblymember Josh Hoover, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond—discuss what LCFF has meant for K–12 education and talk about key issues moving forward.

By borrowing, legislators push the costs down the road for future legislators and taxpayers to deal with.

Τhe education system in Greece contributes to the goals of social mobility and cohesion in many and important ways. Still, there are significant challenges in intergenerational mobility in education and persistent socioeconomic inequalities between students of different backgrounds can be observed. Additional efforts are required in order to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational … Continued

With parents increasingly interested in new educational options and the spread of school choice making those options more accessible, organizations like Fersken Education are helping "edupreneurs" navigate the changing landscape.

Scientific research, academic knowledge production, and higher education are under an obscene and direct attack today in Argentina. Milei's attack is not an isolated case. To a certain extent, it is part of a global phenomenon, i.e. the rampant anti-intellectualism of the "new" right-wing movements and governments, which has certainly accelerated its spread with the […]

This is my new article, forthcoming in the SMU Law Review. Larry Solum's legal blog says its "highly recommended," and you can download it here. Meanwhile, here is the abstract: Hundreds of law review articles have discussed the legality of affirmative action programs. Virtually all of them begin with the implicit assumption that the racial…

Contributor(s): Professor Christopher Coker | For the late Professor Christopher Coker the answer lay in the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational state. In an episode of LSE iQ which explored China's position in the world in the coming century, Professor Coker talked about this, the potential for war between the United States and China and what that might look like.

Christopher Coker, was Professor of International Relations at LSE for almost four decades, and co-Director of LSE IDEAS, LSE's foreign policy think tank. He was a scholar of war and warfare. This episode of LSE iQ is a lightly edited version of our 2019 interview recorded before the COVID pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is dedicated to his memory.


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The Rise of the Civilizational State by Christopher Coker

The Improbable War, China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict by Christopher Coker

While most Indian Citizenship histories reminisce the 'long fifties' (1947-1964) to have been an era of liberal triumph, the internment of Chinese Indians uncovers a gloomier past as Noel Mariam unfolds in this article. She argues that the case of Chinese-Indian internment in the post-war period helps trace semblances of how the liberal state mutates … Continued