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A Flypaper review on whether a content-rich literacy program also lifts math scores. It summarizes Joshua Gilbert and James Kim's study of how reading gains from the MORE intervention carry over to math.

A Chalkboard piece on design choices for state free-college programs. It cites Taylor Odle's study of promise programs and college expectations and the Advise Tennessee advising evaluation.

A Flypaper review of research on Arkansas's statewide teacher minimum salary increase. It summarizes the study by Gema Zamarro, Andrew Camp, Josh McGee, Taylor Wilson, and Miranda Vernon on how raising the pay floor affected teacher retention.

A Chalkboard analysis of the consequences of the SFFA v. Harvard decision. It links to the EdWorkingPaper on post-SFFA college enrollment patterns when describing the cascade of underrepresented students to less selective colleges.

A news story on immigration enforcement and attendance. It reports the working paper led by Andrew Camp finding absences among foreign-born students in one northeastern district rose by almost 40 percent after January 2025.

A news story on aligning tutoring with classroom curriculum in Knox County, Tennessee. It centers on the randomized trial by Cara Jackson and Ayman Shakeel showing aligned tutoring produced about 1.3 extra months of learning.

A Flypaper review of two studies on the lasting effects of pandemic remote learning. It summarizes Jeremy Singer's Michigan analysis of remote learning and later attendance and Patrick Denice and Shahar Dangur-Levy's study of Massachusetts high school math coursetaking.

Chalkbeat story centered on a randomized trial in Knox County showing that tutoring aligned with core classroom instruction produced more learning. The study is the EdWorkingPaper by Cara Jackson and Ayman Shakeel, which the article links and quotes Jackson about.

A news story on a Maryland district eliminating remedial high school math. It cites the Stanford detracking study (Dee and Huffaker) showing below-grade-level ninth graders did better in supported Algebra I classes.

A news story on federal DEI threats and local school leaders. It cites the experimental study by David Blazar showing white students also benefited from having teachers of color.

A Chalkboard piece on how immigration enforcement is affecting schools. It cites Thomas Dee's study of absences after California raids and Kirsten Mumma's study of attendance in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

An explainer summarizing research on four-day school weeks. It describes Cade Lawson's Texas study of teacher turnover and the Brighton, Colo., study by Nowak, Perrone and Smith (linked from the article), along with other research on achievement, behavior and costs.

A news story on the causal evaluation of the Teacher Academy of Maryland high school pathway program, published in JPAM. Co-author David Blazar describes how the program raised entry into teaching and how graduates chose where to teach.

An article on using machine learning to forecast college closures. In discussing colleges as anchor institutions, it links to the EdWorkingPaper by Lauren Russell and Michael Andrews on the local mobility effects of establishing universities.

A K-12 Dive story on a Fordham study finding that CTE earnings gains fade over time. It adds context from a linked Annenberg working paper on Texas high school industry credentials (authors not named in the article), which found earnings but not employment gains.

An opinion piece on how immigration enforcement is traumatizing students and disrupting schools. It links to Thomas Dee's paper on immigration raids and student absences to support the point about rising absenteeism.

A news story on San Francisco restoring eighth-grade algebra. It draws on the Stanford study by Elizabeth Huffaker, Sarah Novicoff and Thomas Dee of the math pathways reform and quotes Dee on follow-up work.

An essay by Daniel Willingham and E. D. Hirsch Jr. on renewed interest in knowledge-rich reading instruction. It describes the Core Knowledge charter school lottery study, of which Willingham is a co-author, and its reading gains.

A Chalkboard piece on survey evidence of worsening teacher working conditions. It links to Brian Jacob's papers on lasting pandemic changes to schooling and to the Kraft and Lyon study on the declining prestige of teaching.

A Flypaper review on whether high-performing teachers stay as effective after taking incentive pay to move to low-performing schools. It summarizes Matthew Kraft, John Papay, Jessalyn James, and Manuel Monti-Nussbaum's study using Transfer Talent Initiative data.