Recent Work

Teachers Like Us: Strategies for Improving Educator Diversity—This report examines the barriers to teacher diversity and the most promising steps needed to recruit and retain more teachers of color.
In Demand: The Real Teacher Shortages and How to Solve Them—This report analyzes teacher supply-and-demand trends and offers policy recommendations for states and school districts post-pandemic.

Teaching Children to Read: One State at a Time—The report assesses the efforts that states have made to improve reading instruction and the challenges to implementing evidence-based practices.
Unfinished Agenda: The Future of Standards-Based School Reform—This essay describes the evolution of the standards movement in American education and the need to align standards with curriculum.
Invisible Students: The Information Crisis in Early Education—The report explores the pandemic’s impact on our youngest learners and the need for more reliable information on early learning and better alignment with elementary education.

Attendance Playbook: Smart Solutions for Reducing Absenteeism Post-Pandemic—The playbook provides more than two dozen proven strategies to help schools bring students back to school regularly.
The New Wave of Public Funding of Private Schools, Explained—The explainer describes the legislative push to expand private-school choice to all students, with an emphasis on empowering parents to choose their children’s school.
Changing the Narrative: The Push for New Equity Measures in Education—The report examines the movement to introduce new equity indicators and its implications for students, educators, and policymakers.