What genetic information can tell us about economic inequality (Nicholas Papageorge, Kevin Thom, Brookings)

Income and wealth inequality in the U.S. is a stark reality. Research from a variety of fields demonstrates that children born into poor families tend to end up less educated, less healthy, more prone to contact with the police, and less likely to accumulate wealth over a lifetime. In contrast, children born into well-off families tend to exhibit better outcomes on all of these dimensions.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/05/11-genes-education-economic-inequality-papageorge-thom

Don't grade schools on character skills (Nicholas Papageorge, Brookings)

In a recent New York Times op-ed, Angela Duckworth raises important concerns about the dangers associated with attaching consequences to school children’s development of character skills. Duckworth’s primary concerns regard the inherently imprecise ways in which character skills are currently measured and the potential for strategic manipulation—or even outright cheating.

Continue reading here ...