What makes a good public school—and how would we know it? While these questions may appear simple to answer—given all the publicly available data and the growing number of online school-rating ...

Ten years ago, Profs. Ariel Kalil and Susan Mayer co-founded the Behavioral Insights and Parenting (BIP) Lab at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy to better understand the ...

Each year, America spends roughly $2 billion on standardized achievement tests at the national and state levels. Credit: John Locher/Associated Press The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

The Pentagon still lacks clear ways to measure if the organizations charged with innovation in the Department of Defense actually work. In 1964, the federal government funded 67 percent of research ...

Concerns about bias in the coverage of news are old and pervasive. Many people have claimed that the news is too negative, too sensational, too friendly to one political party or another, or otherwise ...

Bookshelves and blogs are full of advice about being happy. Philosophers have theorized for centuries about definitions of "happiness" and related terms. But we don't get very far in science before we ...