The Untold Story of School Finance Reforms in the United States
In an important study of PreK-12 public school finance, researchers tell the story of school finance reform in the US and its positive impac
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Education Policy Is Health Policy: Full-Day Kindergarten Edition
The Task Force ultimately recommends all-day classes as an effective tool for promoting the health of low-income and minority students.
It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood? Picturing Poverty and its Effects
There is little doubt that the circumstances in which a child is raised have a profound impact on that child’s trajectory in life.
The Condition of Education – in Charts
When we take a step back and look at things on larger scale, it becomes clear that students in United States are, at least, making progress.
The Shifting Democratic Party Education Platform
This is mostly the sort of stuff and nonsense grist for slow cable news cycles.
Department of Education Charter School Program Grants Focus on DLLs
While there’s increasing evidence that DLLs follow unique patterns of linguistic development, these do not constitute deficits.
Inadequate Access to High Quality Early Education Programs Widens Readiness Gap
A new report examines potential relationships between the school-readiness gap and unequal access to high quality early education programs.
New Bill Seeks to Improve Infant and Toddler Child Care
Infant and toddler child care, for children ages birth to 3, is an especially important--and often neglected--part of the care continuum.
The Little-Known Bill With a Big Impact on Education Research
Reauthorization for the Education Sciences Reform Act has captured the attention of certain circles. In case you're not in those circles, he
A New Model for Family Involvement?
California's controversial Parent Trigger law is one indirect attempt to increase family involvement by giving families more power.
A Simple Policy Change to Help More Hungry Kids Eat? Where Do We Sign Up?
Debt collectors going after parents for lunch money? First graders going without food? This is a mess.
New Research: Montessori Pre-K Works for Latino Students
There’s a common assumption lurking in discussions about education reform: Instruction in basic skills is somehow in tension with enrichment
The Case for Giving Money to Poor Parents
Given the politics of anti-poverty programs, you already know what you think of that idea by the time you’ve reached this sentence.
Evaluating the Design of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
The question remains whether existing indicators, like ECERS-R scores, are even the most reliable measure of program quality.
Taking Education Reform From Launch to Stable Orbit
Even the biggest, most comprehensive reforms have mostly ended up as tinkering around the edges.