K-12

As researchers have learned more about the importance of quality in early care and education (ECE) in recent years, policymakers have been trying to figure out how to best raise the caliber of programs. The primary policy solution in almost all states has been to create Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) that evaluate the […]

Despite high ratings for quality, the popular preschool program in nation’s capital is one of the nation’s most ‘racially isolated’

Research shows that half of the 4,300 New Orleans teachers fired after Hurricane Katrina never taught in Louisiana again

Head Start and CCDBG fared well, but uncertainty about the 2018 budget remains

Note: this is the third in a series of posts explaining the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) recent report on the education of dual language learners (DLLs) and English Learners (ELs), Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures. To read New America’s initial coverage of the report’s […]

Focusing on family buy-in, a Connecticut district shifts to mastery-based learning