Effective Ed

June 18, 2019

A School with No Students

Effective Ed

June 18, 2019

Once upon a time, there was an empty school building. The school day started and ended as if students walked the hallways, but the classrooms sat eerily empty. Administrators sat in offices shuffling papers, but no one practiced math facts or checked books out of the library…

Effective Ed

June 11, 2019

JP Morgan CEO on Neighborhood Health

Effective Ed

June 11, 2019

J. P. Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon, comments on the state of neighborhoods and the American economy. He has interesting ideas, but he's still missing some pieces to the puzzle.

Effective Ed

June 4, 2019

Crystal Ball? No, just hard facts.

Effective Ed

June 4, 2019

We’ve discussed how educational freedom might keep the “highly educated” in the US from migrating. This blog looks at the aftermath of migration out of a place. Experts had predictions about Baltimore in the 90s; here’s what really happened.

Effective Ed

May 21, 2019

Losing Our Minds: How to combat brain drain

Effective Ed

May 21, 2019

Losing Our Minds: How to combat brain drain

The HOPE scholarship was an incentive that kept talented high school students in GA. As a nation facing brain drain, are there ways we could incentivize talented post-grads to stay put instead of only moving to superstar cities?

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May 14, 2019

Gentrification & Shark Week

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May 14, 2019

In the summer, news outlets cover “scary stories” related to vacation - fleshing eating bacteria, sharks, electrocuting docks, etc. But they are more rare than we are lead us to believe. This blog focuses on another real problem covered by the media. And similar to many summer stories, the problem is much rarer than it seems.