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A Flypaper review of research on whether Iowa's education savings accounts pushed up private school tuition. It reports Jason Fontana and Jennifer Jennings's findings that tuition rose most in ESA-eligible grades.

An op-ed making the case for continued tutoring investment. It cites the tutoring-at-scale meta-analysis by Schueler, Kraft and Falken and recent randomized trials of individual tutoring programs.

A story on how federal policy changes are disrupting school and college climate efforts. It cites and links to the EdWorkingPaper on HVAC conditions and student outcomes for effects of adequate heating and cooling on absences, suspensions and test scores.

A K-12 Dive article on how upgrading school HVAC systems relates to attendance, discipline and math scores. It summarizes and links the Annenberg working paper by Lucy Sorensen, Moontae Hwang and Marzuka Ahmad Radia using New York building-condition data.

A news story on deteriorating teacher working conditions. It reports the study co-authored by Cory Koedel using Illinois 5Essentials survey data from 2019 to 2023.

A Chalkboard piece on how policies targeting LGBTQ+ students affect LGBTQ+ teachers. It discusses and links to the RAND working paper estimating the prevalence of LGBTQ+ teachers, noting its data limitations.

A Flypaper review of research on school building heating and ventilation. It summarizes Lucy Sorensen, Moontae Hwang, and Marzuka Ahmad Radia's New York study linking HVAC improvements to student test scores, absences, and suspensions.

A research article by Shaun Dougherty, Andrew Miller and Yerin Yoon on how new charter schools affect nearby Catholic schools. It presents their study's finding that a new charter nearby reduces Catholic school enrollment and raises closure risk.

A research article by Eric Hanushek, Minh Nguyen, Ben Ost and Steven Rivkin on Dallas ISD's performance-based evaluation and pay system. It summarizes their studies of the pay reform's achievement effects and of incentives to move top teachers to hard-to-staff schools, linking to the NBER versions.

An op-ed on lessons from Mississippi’s reading gains. It cites the Westall and Cummings study of state early literacy policies and research on third-grade retention.

A Chalkboard piece on the future of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. It cites Rachel Perera's EdWorkingPaper on federal civil rights enforcement for the finding that most complaints lead to no reforms.

A Proof Points column arguing the enthusiasm for knowledge-building reading curricula outpaces the evidence. It discusses and links to the 2023 Core Knowledge charter school lottery study, noting its limitations.

A K-12 Dive brief on evidence that high-impact tutoring lowers student absences. It reports and links the Stanford National Student Support Accelerator study of D.C.'s tutoring initiative posted as an Annenberg working paper (authors not named in the article).

A Flypaper review of research on New Jersey's $50,000 teacher salary floor. It summarizes Prasiddha Shakya's working paper on the policy's effects on achievement, graduation, and college enrollment.

An article on stalled pandemic learning recovery and what schools might try next. It cites and links Matthew Kraft, Beth Schueler and Grace Falken's tutoring meta-analysis, which found that tutoring's effects shrink when programs are scaled up.

A Chalkboard piece on measuring high school performance beyond GPA. The authors describe their EdWorkingPaper using item response theory on Delaware transcript data to account for course difficulty.

A Flypaper review of research on corequisite remediation in Tennessee community colleges. It summarizes Florence Xiaotao Ran and Hojung Lee's working paper on who benefits from replacing prerequisite remedial courses with corequisite ones.

A research article by Brian Kisida, Gary Ritter and colleagues reporting a national survey of high school students about classroom instruction on race and divisive topics. It presents the findings of the same research team's study on claims of critical race theory and indoctrination in classrooms.

A news story on Penny Schwinn’s expected role at the Education Department. It cites the Nashville tutoring study finding small reading gains and no math effect.

A Globe 'Big Idea' column by Kara Miller on the teacher pay penalty and declining interest in teaching. It draws on Matthew Kraft and Melissa Arnold Lyon's paper on the rise and fall of the teaching profession (linked on edworkingpapers.com) and links Nguyen, Lam and Bruno's teacher-shortage study for underqualified-teacher rankings.