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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.

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 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.

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.

An interactive analysis of district spending and teacher pay. It cites the analysis comparing teacher and nurse pay trends (Hashim and Laski).

An analysis of teacher turnover trends. It cites Kraft and Lyon’s research on teaching profession indicators showing the profession at 50-year lows.

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

An analysis of how reading progress is measured. It cites the 2023 analysis of state early literacy laws (Westall and Cummings) on what those laws emphasize.

An op-ed on declining California enrollment and school finance. It cites Thomas Dee’s finding that immigration enforcement in five Central Valley districts raised absenteeism by 22%.