A Chalkboard piece by the researchers behind an evaluation of Tennessee's Advise TN college advising program. It summarizes their working paper's finding that the program raised college going across student groups.
A chapter of a Brookings report on school board members' views of the pandemic and culture-war era. It links to the EdWorkingPaper measuring conflict in local politics as evidence that board-community conflict was concentrated in a few districts.
A Chalkboard piece on new Kentucky evidence about corequisite remediation in college. In reviewing prior research it describes and links to the Texas corequisite math study and the study of corequisite design features and Latinx students.
A piece on STEM teacher shortages in high-need schools and the federal Noyce program. It reports findings from a research project, including the Annenberg working paper by Jieon Shim and Li Feng on wage penalties for teachers in high-poverty schools.
A brief on how child care worker pay and demographics have changed since 1990. It summarizes the author's new working paper on the static nature of the child care workforce, which finds workers remain behind other women and low-wage workers.
An explainer on a new federal duration-of-status rule for international students and workers. It links to the EdWorkingPaper on international students as a higher-education service export for the finding that international enrollment supports additional in-state enrollment.
A Chalkboard piece on unequal school building conditions and what state policymakers can do about them. The authors present findings from their own study of racial disparities in New York school facilities and link to a meta-analysis on air pollution and student achievement.
A Brown Center Chalkboard overview of trends in U.S. schools and international comparisons. It cites and links to James Wyckoff's paper on declining achievement, including his caution against attributing recent NAEP declines mostly to COVID-19.