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‘Time is Running Out’: COVID-19 Set Back Older Students the Most, Study Finds

Greg Toppo

KIPP Middle and High School Students Have Far Higher College Completion Rates

Jo Napolitano

Four Reasons to Be Hopeful from Latest Summer School Study

Greg Toppo

Four Top Takeaways from the School Research of New Biden Adviser Kirabo Jackson

Kevin Mahnken

Schools Are Now the Leading Target for Cyber Gangs as Ransom Payments Encourage Attacks

Mark Keierleber

Research: Schools Prioritizing Social-Emotional Learning See Big Academic Gains

Jo Napolitano

Generation Meh: Students Give Schools Middling Marks, Gallup Poll Finds

Kevin Mahnken

Black Parents Open to New Forms of Schooling, Polling Suggests

Kevin Mahnken

Denver’s Reforms Led to Huge Academic Growth, Study Finds. But Will They Last?

Kevin Mahnken

Tough Love: Study Shows Kids Benefit from Teachers With High Grading Standards

Kevin Mahnken

NCES: 49% of Students Started Year Below Grade Level, Usually in Math, Reading

Linda Jacobson

Global Learning Loss: Top 4 Takeaways from Latest International COVID Research

Kevin Mahnken

New National Study: 1 in 4 Teachers Changing Lesson Plans Due to Anti-CRT Laws

Asher Lehrer-Small

Irked by Skyrocketing Costs, Fewer Americans See K-12 as Route to Higher Ed

Greg Toppo

New Data: Post-COVID, School Leaders Frustrated in Efforts to Curb Misbehavior

Kevin Mahnken

Suicide, Alcohol and Drugs Drove Deaths for Those Without a B.A. Prior to COVID

Jo Napolitano

Arts Education Program Increases School Engagement, Study Finds

Kevin Mahnken

Research: Achievement Shows Signs of Improvement, but Youngest Kids Need Help

Greg Toppo

Schools Face ‘Urgency Gap’ on Pandemic Recovery: 5 Takeaways from New Study

Greg Toppo

Exclusive: All Teacher Shortages Are Local, New Research Finds

Kevin Mahnken

Students at Colleges that Close Abruptly Less Likely to Finish Elsewhere

Jo Napolitano

Teachers Felt More COVID Anxiety than Healthcare Workers, Study Finds

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Damage from NAEP Math Losses Could Total Nearly $1 Trillion

Kevin Mahnken

Nation’s Report Card Shows Largest Drops Ever Recorded in 4th and 8th Grade Math

Kevin Mahnken

‘Nation’s Report Card’: Two Decades of Growth Wiped Out by Two Years of Pandemic

Kevin Mahnken

The ‘Mass Exodus’ of Teachers Never Happened, Paper Argues

Kevin Mahnken

New Poll: Majority of Adults Don’t Trust Educators to Handle Sensitive Topics

Kevin Mahnken

New Research: Summer Learning Boosts Math Performance, College Graduation

Kevin Mahnken

How Norway Cut Student Absences By 25% — And Why The Policy Is No Silver Bullet

Asher Lehrer-Small

‘Low-Hanging Fruit’: Thousands of Same-Race Schools Within Miles of Each Other

Asher Lehrer-Small

74 Interview: Seeing the Nuances Behind the Chronic Absenteeism Crisis

Asher Lehrer-Small

Court Documents: Racial Preferences Massively Boost Black, Hispanic Applicants

Kevin Mahnken

Study: When School Board Members Are Elected, Their Property Values Go Up

Kevin Mahnken

As Biden Signs Waiver Extension, Study Shows School Meals Lower Grocery Costs

Kevin Mahnken

Survey: Pandemic Learning Loss is Teachers’ Top Source of Job-Related Stress

Linda Jacobson

Pandemic Seriously Altered Teens’ Relationships, Pew Survey Finds

Kevin Mahnken

Research Shows Heavy Toll on Survivors of School Shootings

Kevin Mahnken

Study: COVID Learning Loss Comparable to That Inflicted by Hurricane Katrina

Kevin Mahnken

Chicago Students 40% More Likely to Earn Bachelor’s After Prep Program

Jo Napolitano

Study: When Political Heat Rises, Scores Drop

Kevin Mahnken

Outlawing School Segregation Spurred Gains for CA Chicano Students, Study Finds

Asher Lehrer-Small

Study: Congress May Move on State K-12 Bills

Kevin Mahnken

Alarming New Research Shows Babies Born Amid COVID Talk Less, Developing Slower

Jo Napolitano

Academic Mismatch: GPAs Hit All-Time High as National Test Scores Lag

Linda Jacobson

Do Masks in School Work? Pair of Studies May Finally Put Debate To Rest

Asher Lehrer-Small

Two Studies Lay Out New Cases School Unmasking Could Trigger

Asher Lehrer-Small

Private School Students More Connected to Internet, Teachers in 2020

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Charters Moved Fast to Prioritize Learning During COVID

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Teacher Observations Biased Against Males, African Americans

Kevin Mahnken

Boston Charter Schools Increase Student Voting, Study Finds

Kevin Mahnken

16 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2021

Kevin Mahnken

1M HS Grads Skipped College in 2020. Only Tiny Fraction Re-Enrolled in 2021

Asher Lehrer-Small

Random Lotteries Would Hurt Equitable Admissions, Study Finds

Kevin Mahnken

5 Alarming New Undergraduate Enrollment Numbers

Marianna McMurdock

Surprise Study: Remedial Classes for Middle-Schoolers Led More to Finish College

Kevin Mahnken

Study Finds that Remote Classes Led Students to Disenroll

Kevin Mahnken

Long-Term NAEP Scores for 13-Year-Olds Drop for First Time since 1970s

Kevin Mahnken

Study: AI Uncovers Skin-Tone Gap in Most-Beloved Children’s Books

Asher Lehrer-Small

Report Shows Short-Term Teachers Get Short Shrift

Kevin Mahnken

Study Demonstrates Gifted Gap for Black, Low-Income Students

Kevin Mahnken

‘Staggering’: New Research Shows that Child Obesity Has Soared During Pandemic

Kevin Mahnken

Study Shows Meager Growth Linked to Common Core

Kevin Mahnken

Education is a Top Priority for Black Women — as High as Fighting Racism

Marianna McMurdock

Study Finds Wide Range of Outcomes from State Takeovers

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Did Online School Drive Down Cyberbullying?

Asher Lehrer-Small

Study Finds Big Benefits from Student Mentoring In School

Kevin Mahnken

Studies Point to Increase in Child Abuse During Pandemic

Kevin Mahnken

Teaching Candidates Struggle to Gain Licenses, Report Finds

Kevin Mahnken

Survey Points to 'Thriving Gap' Among Remote Learners During Pandemic

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Partisanship Alone Didn’t Determine School Reopenings

Kevin Mahnken

Federal Data Shows Pandemic Fueled Huge Drop in K-12 Enrollment

Kevin Mahnken

COVID Family Feud? Report Shows Moms More Resistant to Vaccinating Kids vs. Dads

Asher Lehrer-Small

New Data: Red States Offered 432 More Hours of In-Person Learning v. Blue States

Asher Lehrer-Small

New Data on Students with Disabilities Finds Opportunity and Risk

Beth Hawkins

Studies Show Promise for Online Tutoring

Kevin Mahnken

More NAEP Disappointment, This Time in Science

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Students Less Likely to Transfer Out of Newark Charter Schools

Kevin Mahnken

Inequity In Higher Ed Costs U.S. $956 Billion Per Year

Asher Lehrer-Small

Immigrant Peers Spell Academic Gains For Native-Born Students

Asher Lehrer-Small

Study Asks: Where do Teachers of the Year Come From?

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Four-Day School Week Harms Learning

Kevin Mahnken

‘Doomed’ By 8th Grade: Barriers to College Start Early, Report Reveals

Asher Lehrer-Small

The Opioid Crisis Was America’s Epidemic Before COVID. Research Suggests that Overdoses Hurt Student Achievement

Kevin Mahnken

Teachers Unions Lift Salaries and School Spending, Research Shows, But Evidence on Student Achievement Is Mixed

Kevin Mahnken

New Study: 5 Ways Racist 1930s Housing Policies Still Haunt Schools

Asher Lehrer-Small

Inside the Massachusetts Study that Helped Change the CDC’s Stance on Social Distancing

Kevin Mahnken

Survey: More Young People Are Depressed During the Pandemic. But They May Be Using Social Media to Cope

Kevin Mahnken

FAFSA Applications Fell After COVID — And For Many Incoming Freshmen, They Haven’t Recovered

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Chicago Tutoring Program Delivered Huge Math Gains; Personalization May Be the Key

Kevin Mahnken

One Year into Pandemic, Far Fewer Young Students are on Target to Learn How to Read, Tests Show

Linda Jacobson

CDC Study Finds Teachers ‘Central’ To COVID Transmission When Distancing, Masks Not Enforced

Linda Jacobson

A Pre-COVID Education Study With Big Implications for Remote Learning During the Pandemic: When Parents Take Over, Children Give Up Easier

Asher Lehrer-Small

Survey: Pandemic-Related Stress Tops Teachers’ Reasons for Quitting, But Vaccines, COVID Testing Could Lure Some of Them Back

Linda Jacobson

Report: New Summer Learning Initiative, Launched Last Year as a 5-Week Pilot for Nearly 12,000 Students, Shows Promise For Improving Online Instruction

Kevin Mahnken

Leaders in California and South Carolina Find Learning Loss — Especially in the Early Grades — But Experts Say Data is Still ‘Imperfect’

Linda Jacobson

Lead Poisoning Hurts Kids. A New Study Shows How Exposure from an Unexpected Source — NASCAR Racetracks — Lowered Test Scores

Kevin Mahnken

What 114 Pre-Pandemic Studies About ‘Flipped’ Classrooms Could Tell Us About Refining Our Approach to Remote Learning in 2021

Jill Barshay

Force of Habit: New Study Finds that Routines Could Be Blocking Teacher Improvement

Kevin Mahnken

Study: Income Segregation Increasing in Classrooms

Asher Lehrer-Small

Study: Exposure to Desegregated Schools Often Made Whites Less Tolerant As Adults

Kevin Mahnken
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