An alarming 6.7 million young people are out of school or unemployed. To encourage young people to submit ideas about how to stimulate job creation, musician and ...
In this policy report, the Annie E. Casey Foundation Foundation explores the increased number of children living with extended family and close friends, a longtime ...
While only 46 percent of all Americans report using a smartphone, more than 70 percent of school principals and district administrators have these “always ...
Schools will be releasing final grades for students soon. But how would you grade your schools? Student test scores from the federal government let us judge school ...
The eleven state applications approved by the federal government for waivers under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act vary in the degree to which “deeper ...
Good news: despite shrunken state coffers, the quality of public schools is by many measures improving. Who is leading the charge? Check out this year's ...
The MetLife Foundation and the NASSP are seeking high-achieving K-12 schools whose best practices and outstanding results can inform other schools in their school ...
The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation annually awards grants to rural and urban public and school libraries serving at-risk children in grades K-12. The Foundation will ...
IDRA’s latest annual report tells stories of our work through three strategies. (1) With compelling facts, we make the case for quality schools for all; (2) by ...
ASCD, an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner, is accepting nominations for the 2013 ...
The Department of Education is pressing the second batch of states seeking No Child Left Behind waivers to include in their applications more ambitious goals for ...
Fewer than one-third of American 8th graders are proficient in science, according to results from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test. But most ...
Here's a summer reading list for teens with a compelling angle: 16 immigration stories of hardship and hope, identity and transformation. At a time when legal ...
Nothing is simple in the process of strengthening our national approach to public education. These ten steps, however, provide a framework for invigorating our ...
NAESP Executive Director Gail Connelly advises educators and education policymakers to consider qualitative, as well as quantitative, data in assessing both student ...
This policy framing paper is one of three that explores the potential for housing combined with support services to create better outcomes for vulnerable populations. ...
