Introduction / Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein -- Economic inequality in college access, matriculation, and graduation / Robert Haveman and Kathryn Wilson -- Overcoming educational inequality : improving secondary education linkages with broad access postsecondary education / Michael...

Introduction / John Chubb and Tom Loveless -- Would smaller classes help close the Black-white achievement gap? / Alan B. Krueger and Diane M. Whitmore -- Exploring explanations for ethnic differences in voucher impacts on student test scores / Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell -- Reducing...

Education systems in many of the world's poorest countries are now experiencing the aftermath of the global economic downturn. This report argues that the crisis could create a lost generation of children whose life chances will have been irreparably damaged by a failure to protect their right...