SSRC Work and Experts Related to

K-12 Education

Features and Press Releases

January 26th 2009
Experts Available for Interviews on Mississippi Human Development Report
December 8th 2008
This Classroom Doesn't Love a Wall
The award-winning French film The Class follows a year in the life of a French schoolteacher working at junior high school in a tough neighborhood in Paris. Does it help to explain why France’s educational system has proved so resistant to multiculturalism? We asked anthropologist John Bowen for an appraisal. He wrote a chapter on this theme for the SSRC-sponsored volume Just Schools.
October 28th 2008
New Research Alliance for NYC Schools
October 17th 2008
JUST SCHOOLS: "Divided we stand, united we fall..."
Two leading thinkers on justice and American education talk to Adam Strom of Facing History and Ourselves about why they edited a major new work exploring the challenges schools are facing in accommodating various races, backgrounds, and religions. The book came out of an SSRC project.
May 7th 2008
New Book Takes Provocative Look at "Just Schools"
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Programs and Projects

Children of Immigrants in Schools
Digital Media and Learning
Investigating how digital media are changing the way young people learn
Education and Migration in Comparative Perspective
Education and Migration in the United States
Education Research Program
Bringing social science to bear on local, national, and international educational challenges
Improving Learning Environments
Migration and Education
Research Alliance for New York City Schools