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Community College Students and Poverty
American Association of Community Colleges
“If you can’t read, you can’t do anything.”
On the need for promoting literacy
Growth in public school enrollment
National Center for Education Statistics
Are There Hidden Costs Associated with Conducting Layoffs?
If teachers are laid off or threatened with a reduction-in-force (RIF), does it affect their…
Graduation Scandal Shouldn’t Overshadow DCPS Reforms
The recent furor over District of Columbia high schools issuing dubious diplomas has …
How Schools Can Help Expand Health Coverage for Children
Despite gains in expanding health coverage to children over the past decade, we still have…
Consolidating Without Merging: A New Option for Higher Ed
With nearly 3,000 four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. higher education market—many in difficult…
Want to Make School a Safer Place? Stop Paddling Students
Since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., a month ago, school safety has dominated the…
An Important Piece of the Student Motivation Puzzle
Shortly after our daughter started high school, our third-grade son started crying every night while…
Mental Health in High School: The Teacher’s Perspective
The recent mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., provoked a rash of conversation about what schools…
“Education cuts do not heal.”
Education cuts do not heal.
Legacy Students at Harvard
The New York Times
Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice
Open enrollment systems offer students an opportunity to choose a public high school best suited…
Learning How to Measure Social and Emotional Learning
We know that content knowledge alone cannot determine students’ success. This is true in school—where…
Let’s Not Miss the Opportunity In Weighted Student Funding Pilot
This year, the federal government is offering school districts the opportunity to change the way…
More Security in Schools
National Center for Education Statistics
“More glue guns, fewer handguns.”
More glue guns, fewer handguns.
“It strains credibility to suggest that schools cannot be made safer unless states and districts can employ racially discriminatory discipline policies and practices.”
In a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Obama-era discipline guidance
Closing the Latino Leadership Gap
Representation matters. But for most Latino students across the country, a stark under-representation of Latinos…
Laptops in the Classroom: An Open and Closed Case
A recent commentary piece in the New York Times generated a flurry of debate…
“It certainly was hard to watch, but more concerning are the policies of this administration, their unwillingness to protect student civil rights, their unwillingness to invest in public education, their unwillingness to do what’s necessary to make our schools safer from gun violence.”
On the 60 Minutes Interview with his successor, Betsy DeVos
“If we wanted to dictate from D.C., I’d claim the mantle of our nation’s ‘choice chief’ and reject plans because they don’t give parents more quality choices. But I haven’t done that. And I won’t.”
On her handling of the state plans required by the Every Student Succeeds Act.
“Lyndon Johnson understood that you can’t deal with education without dealing with poverty, and you can’t deal with poverty without dealing with race.”
Reflecting on the lack of progress in civil rights in the past 50 years
Pay Inequities Between Men and Women
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
Accelerating Community College Graduation Rates
There’s compelling evidence that community college graduation rates can be improved through supporting students…
Success of 1st Generational College Students
National Center for Education Statistics
Screening for the Strongest Teachers
In an effort to put the strongest possible teachers in its classrooms, Los Angeles Unified School…
Leveraging Text Messages to Mitigate Chronic Absenteeism
Chronic student absenteeism tends to be higher in Kindergarten than other primary school grades,…