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Articles by Phyllis W. Jordan

Phyllis W. Jordan is associate director of FutureEd, an independent, nonpartisan think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

New Study: Kids Who Scored Worst on NAEP Missed the Most School Before the Test

Phyllis W. Jordan

Federal Funds & Philanthropy Can Help Get Chronically Absent Kids Back in School

Phyllis W. Jordan

New Study: $40 Stipend Draws Substitute Teachers into Hard-to-Staff Schools

Matthew A. Kraft, Grace Falken & Phyllis W. Jordan

7 Ways 5,000 Districts & Charter Networks Are Spending Relief Funds on Teachers

Phyllis W. Jordan & Bella DiMarco

How Blue States & Red States Use COVID Relief Funds Differently to Aid Schools

Bella DiMarco & Phyllis W. Jordan

Analysis: How Medicaid Can Help Schools Support Students’ Mental Health

Phyllis W. Jordan, Anne Dwyer & Bella DiMarco

$3 Billion for Summer Programs to Fight Learning Loss

Bella DiMarco & Phyllis W. Jordan

3,500 Local School Districts’ Ambitious Post-COVID Tutoring Plans

Phyllis W. Jordan, Bella DiMarco & Thomas Toch

What Will $50B in COVID School Relief Funding Buy?

Bella DiMarco & Phyllis W. Jordan

How Districts With Different Poverty Levels Are Spending COVID Relief Funds

Phyllis W. Jordan & Bella DiMarco

How 2,500 City, Suburban, Town and Rural School Districts Are Spending COVID Aid

Bella DiMarco & Phyllis W. Jordan

How 2,100 Districts & Charter Schools Nationwide Plan to Spend COVID Relief Fund

Phyllis W. Jordan & Bella DiMarco

8 Ways to Use COVID Relief Funds to Bolster Health in Schools

Phyllis W. Jordan & Alex Mays

How Are States Spending Their COVID Education Relief Funds?

Brooke LePage & Phyllis W. Jordan

Absentee Data from 5 School Districts Show Alarming Trends

Phyllis W. Jordan & Emily Bailard

Designing Summer Programs That Kids Will Want to Attend

Brooke LePage & Phyllis W. Jordan

Analysis: What a Difference a Pandemic Makes — This Year, from School Choice to Teacher Pay to CTE, 48 State of the State Addresses Focus on COVID-19

Phyllis W. Jordan & Brooke LePage

Jordan: When Racial and Gender Bias Is So Darn Obvious — 2 Studies Offer Suggestions for Real Change

Phyllis W. Jordan

Analysis: Kamala Harris Changed Her Thinking About Absenteeism, Truancy & Enforcement. What That Might Mean for Her as VP

Phyllis W. Jordan

Analysis: Taking Attendance Amid the Pandemic Is About More Than Student Participation. It Will Be Invaluable Data About Whether Distance Learning Is Actually Working

Phyllis W. Jordan & Hedy N. Chang

Jordan: New Program Gives Low-Income HS Students College Credit and a Pathway to Higher Ed. It Could Be a Post-Pandemic Model

Phyllis W. Jordan

Jordan: Chronic Absenteeism in the Time of Coronavirus — What Happens to Admissions, Promotion and Accountability?

Phyllis W. Jordan

Analysis: From Teacher Pay to Free College, What 41 Governors’ State of the State Addresses Reveal About the Nation’s Top 2020 Education Issues

Phyllis W. Jordan & Brooke LePage

Jordan: Surveys Can Tell a Lot About School Climate and Quality. But Be Careful When Using Them for Accountability Under ESSA

Phyllis W. Jordan

Jordan: What LeBron James Can Teach Us About Chronic Absenteeism — and What Schools Can Do About It

Phyllis W. Jordan

Jordan & Miller: What State and Local Education Leaders Can Do to Stop the Spread of Measles

Phyllis W. Jordan & Raegen Miller