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Financial Innovations During COVID Show Schools Can Be Nimble When They Have To

Roza & Silberstein: When districts break out of deeply ingrained expenditure habits, it's a big deal. During the pandemic, many of them did just that

Marguerite Roza & Katherine Silberstein
Learning Loss
learning loss

High-Quality Classwork + Tutoring: Proven Recipe for Closing the Learning Gap

Neitzel: Schools have a decision as they advance learning recovery — do they address unfinished learning with proven solutions or design their own?

Amanda Neitzel
Latino History Month

Gathering Better Data on Latino Students Is Key to Truly Meeting Their Needs

Castillo: 'Latinos' are not one big group of similar-looking people with similar experiences. Student data needs to reflect that

Wendy Castillo
Author: Wendy Castillo
School safety
school safety

Climate, Technology, Trust: Ways to Help Students Report Threats to Their School

Moore & Jackson: Research shows students & other community members must feel safe coming forward with information about threats before tragedy strikes

Pauline Moore & Brian Jackson
Student Well-Being
higher education

One Way to Help College Students Get Enough Sleep – Pay Them to Go to Bed

Most college students sleep less than the recommended minimum of seven hours per night, which can have adverse effects on physical and mental health

Osea Giuntella
Pandemic

Building Upgrades, SEL: 100 Large & Urban Districts Plan Their Pandemic Recovery

Bree Dusseault
Union Report

With COVID Aid Pouring in, School Funding Ballot Initiatives Scarce This Year

Mike Antonucci
Teacher Staffing

On a Per-Student Basis, School Staffing Levels Are Hitting All-Time Highs

Chad Aldeman
Immigration

Case Studies: Welcoming Immigrant & Refugee Students, & How Washington Can Help

Alejandra Vázquez Baur
Union Report

Seattle Teachers End Strike, Aiming for More Employees for Fewer Students

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

EXCLUSIVE: CRPE Situation Report — State of the American Student, September 2022

Robin Lake & Travis Pillow
Innovative Schools

Exclusive: New Analysis — Trends in Education Innovation from 161 School Leaders

Chelsea Waite
Union Report

Miami Teachers Union President Running for Lieutenant Governor of Florida

Mike Antonucci
Learning Loss

Experts Say Kids Are Far Behind After COVID; Parents Shrug. Why the Disconnect?

Morgan Polikoff & David M. Houston

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Back To School

School Mask, Vaccine Mandates Are Mostly Gone. But What if the Virus Comes Back?

Bree Dusseault
Pandemic

Analysis: Texas & Tennessee Get Tutoring Right — and Model How to Expand it Nationwide

Shalinee Sharma
Union Report

L.A. Teachers Union Files Labor Complaint Against Voluntary Extra School Days

Mike Antonucci
Teachers

Leaving the Classroom to Start a School — Teachers Who Made the Move

Michael Q. McShane & James Shuls
Pandemic

Many Remote Learning Options Shutting Down as School Reopens for Fall 2022

Cara Pangelinan & Bree Dusseault
Union Report

Minneapolis Teacher Layoff Exemption Based on Race — But Not the Way You Think

Mike Antonucci
School safety

Analysis: School Safety Is About More Than Keeping Guns Out of the Classroom

Roseanna Ander & Monica Bhatt
Analysis

How Educators Are Tackling Disrupted Learning in ESL and Bilingual Students

Nathan Martin
Union Report

Analysis: ‘Teacher Shortage’ — A History Told in Numbers, and Decades

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Rausch: 10 Steps Toward Measuring Great Schools During and after the Pandemic

Karega Rausch
Indianapolis

Brown: Students Are Making Modest Learning Gains. That’s Not Good Enough

Brandon Brown
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