There’s a long-held charge against the traditional system in U.S. public education: Sending children to neighborhood schools consigns poorer kids to underfunded and unsafe schools while affluent kids thrive in amenity-rich environments geared toward college preparation.

Programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, refundable tax credits, and Medicaid are meant to help families through hard times. A central question for both budget writers and health policymakers is what that early support means decades later.

Chalkbeat dug into exclusive new data that shows teacher turnover was not just a short-lived disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic. In many places, more teachers have been leaving the classroom for the past four to five years, with real consequences for schools, students, and the educators who remain.

The lobby of the PSTC buzzed with quiet pride as students, family, friends, and faculty gathered to celebrate the Master’s in Social Data Analytics (MSDA) class of 2026.

A new paper generated a fair amount of consternation and eye-rolling when the authors claimed that New Orleans, the largest city in Louisiana, is at risk of being surrounded by open water by the end of the century.

Celebrating the Class of 2026

On March 25, 2026, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, a bill that would pause all new large-scale AI data center construction until Congress passes legislation addressing AI safety, worker protections, and environmental standards.

Section 504 plans are one of the most important sources of disability services in schools. Why are well-off families their biggest beneficiaries?

Students who attend schools near data centers are more likely to see their math performance decline than those who don’t. Attending school near noisy airports is also associated with declines in math scores.

Every year Brown faculty, postdocs, and trainees present scholarly research papers and/or professional posters at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. In addition, several researchers participate in the conference as chairs, panelists, or discussants. The PSTC compiles an annual list of these participants. Please consider attending sessions of our colleagues and students!

The enslavement of Native Americans is a lesser-known part of our national history. Linford D. Fisher wants to change that.

The PSTC has selected this year’s Seed Award recipients.

A new paper by Matthew Kraft, John Papay, Jessalynn James, and Manuel Monti-Nussbaum goes out of the realm of the fictionalized and looks at real world efforts to move high performing teachers into low performing schools.

Many American workers associate artificial intelligence (AI) with layoffs, less satisfying work, and tech billionaires becoming ever more wealthy at their expense. They may be right.

Millions of U.S. students attend a school close to a contaminated environmental site associated with an increased risk of cancer, birth defects and other negative health outcomes – with students of color disproportionately enrolled in these schools.

In an era marked by climate instability, economic inequality, political fragmentation and psychological distress, many thinkers have turned to a deeper question: what is it about human history and human nature that has brought us here – and how might understanding it help us build a better future?

It can control high blood pressure, improve mental health and reduce falls among older adults. A review of 187 randomized controlled trials covering nearly 30,000 people found exercise lowered mortality risk by 13 percent. Given the fact that people struggle to stick with exercise, the crucial question is: How can we design fitness programs that maximize long-term adherence?

A new study reveals that mindfulness practices may significantly reduce depression symptoms, particularly in people who have experienced early-life adversity, such as childhood abuse and neglect.

In 2009, the federal government launched a remarkable educational experiment. Effective teachers were paid large bonuses ($30,000, adjusted for inflation, over two years) to move into a low-performing, high-poverty school.

A Coventry couple had to cancel their flight to Colombia to finalize their child's adoption. The same thing happened to another couple in Wisconsin. An Ohio couple's Haiti adoption is on ice, and so is that of another couple in South Carolina.

Commonly cited statistics on the mortality risk of pregnancy when compared to abortion in the US are a vast undercount, according to a new study.

In the evolving landscape of authoritarian control, PSTC affiliate Han Zhang has introduced a compelling new framework for understanding how digital technology preserves regime stability.

The Oregon Legislature’s short session begins Monday, and education advocates are urging lawmakers to dig into the state’s high rate of high school absenteeism.

In the days since U.S. forces extracted Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela to face justice, much of the debate in Washington has focused on whether what was done was a good idea, or even legitimate. Unsurprisingly, that debate has split almost perfectly along party lines.