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An Ohio Gadfly Daily review of research on Tennessee charter schools' pandemic recovery. It summarizes Adam Kho, Shelby Smith, and Ron Zimmer's comparison of charter and district students' test scores during and after COVID-19.

A Chalkboard piece on third-grade retention policies and multilingual English learners. The author, Diana Quintero, summarizes her new Annenberg working paper on a Texas retention policy.

A Proof Points column on strategies schools are using to reduce absenteeism. It cites Thomas Dee's draft paper finding that immigration raids coincided with a sharp rise in daily student absences.

A Chalkboard piece on how community college administrators implement promise programs. The authors summarize their interview study of administrators at seven colleges, linking to the working paper.

A Proof Points column summarizing insights about chronic absenteeism from a research symposium. It reports Seth Gershenson's estimate that the learning cost of absences is somewhat smaller after the pandemic than before, the finding of his paper with Ethan Hutt and co-authors.

A news story on continuing public school enrollment declines. It cites the Boston University study finding high-income Massachusetts districts and middle schools lost the most students.

A rebuttal arguing a critique of Milwaukee's voucher program left out key data. It quotes the Annenberg-published study by Patrick Wolf, John Witte and Brian Kisida on higher college attainment among voucher students.

A Chalkboard piece on who uses college admissions test prep and its effectiveness. It links to the EdWorkingPaper on the rise of private tutoring centers for their growth and concentration in affluent areas.

A Flypaper review on whether high-impact tutoring gets students to come to school. It reports Monica Lee, Susanna Loeb, and Carly Robinson's finding from Washington, D.C., that absences fell on scheduled tutoring days.

A news story on survey data suggesting teacher well-being and intentions to quit have stabilized. For contrast, it cites and links Matthew Kraft and Melissa Arnold Lyon's working paper finding that the teaching profession is at a 50-year low.

National Chalkbeat explainer on how the federal tax and domestic policy bill would affect children and schools, including immigration enforcement funding. It links Thomas Dee's EdWorkingPaper showing that Central Valley immigration raids raised student absences.

A news story on a working paper that measured conflict in about 100,000 school board meeting transcripts. Co-author Tyler Simko explains that most meetings are civil and that high-conflict meetings cluster in a small number of city and suburban districts.

An op-ed arguing for closing low-performing schools and expanding good ones. It cites research on Massachusetts takeovers, the national state takeover study by Schueler and Bleiberg, and long-run evidence from Tennessee turnaround schools.

A news story on Vladimir Kogan, Stéphane Lavertu and Zachary Peskowitz's Annenberg working paper on 50,000 school board elections. It reports that many races go uncontested, that incumbents usually win, and that academic performance does not drive electoral competition.

A Flypaper commentary on how immigration enforcement affects children's schooling. It reviews Thomas Dee's study of five Central Valley districts, which found absences rose sharply after the early-2025 raids.

An Education Week explainer on research about how immigration raids disrupt schooling. It leads with Thomas Dee's new study of five Central Valley districts, which found absences rose 22% after raids began in January 2025.

A K-12 Dive news brief on rising absences in California's Central Valley after immigration raids began in 2025. It reports Thomas Dee's working paper finding a 22% increase in daily absences.

A Chronicle news story on how a January 2025 Border Patrol operation in Kern County affected Central Valley school attendance. It is built around Thomas Dee's paper (linked to the EdWorkingPapers PDF) estimating a 22% rise in daily absences, plus Dee's comments on learning and funding consequences.

An Education Exchange podcast episode on whether local school board elections deliver accountability. The episode page links to the EdWorkingPaper on school board turnover co-written by Vladimir Kogan with Stéphane Lavertu and Zachary Peskowitz.

A zero2eight story on stress and turnover intentions among pre-K teachers. It cites the Annenberg working paper on Louisiana early childhood teacher turnover.