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In his new book, “10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People,” David Yeager, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a FutureEd research advisor…

Harris’s evolution on the issue of student absenteeism

When ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, advocates and watchdogs warned about the potential for racial bias. The new large language model was created by harvesting 300 billion words…

A report highlighting AI’s role as a supportive tool in education

This piece originally appeared in The Hechinger Report. Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student…

While debates rage over who should win admission to selective high schools, public education leaves millions of talented young people, many of them students of color and from low-income backgrounds…

A report highlighting AI’s role as a supportive tool in education

With the first presidential debate coming up on Thursday, June 27 at 9 p.m. ET, we’re eager to hear the candidates\’ plans for improving education. We anticipate discussions on the FAFSA rollout…

Reforms around college remediation programs, or developmental education, have stalled, leaving many underserved students stuck. This report explains how to revive the “dev-ed” movement.

New tutoring programs funded by the Biden administration and governors of both parties are shrinking the achievement gap in America’s schools. They could be the foundation of a bipartisan movement to ...

Reforms around college remediation programs, or developmental education, have stalled, leaving many underserved students stuck. This report explains how to revive the “dev-ed” movement.

What led to the rapid spread and adoption of tutoring as a solution? What will it take to bring tutoring to the scale? And what can the science of advocacy teach us about how other policy ideas might…

Few policies in public education have been as contentious as how schools identify and educate their most academically able students. Some seek to dismantle gifted-and-talented programs, exam schools…

A new vision of advanced education that embraces both academic rigor and equity, profiling school districts in Arizona, New York City, and Montgomery County

Statewide standardized testing has played a central role in public education for three decades, providing insights into school performance and driving improvement. But state testing…

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Rethinking Gifted Education. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

As school districts around the country contend with teacher shortages, policymakers have sought ways to incentivize people to become teachers. One strategy is reducing teacher-licensure requirements.

This piece originally appeared in The Hechinger Report. Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student…

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Rethinking Gifted Education. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

FutureEd has been tracking outcomes-based contracts in tutoring since last year. We\’ve written about it here and here. Jasmine Walker implemented outcomes-based contracts in Duval County Public…

Statewide standardized testing has played a central role in public education for three decades, providing insights into school performance and driving improvement. But state testing…

Few policies in public education have been as contentious as how schools identify and educate their most academically able students. Some seek to dismantle gifted-and-talented programs, exam schools…

FutureEd Policy Director Liz Cohen delivered testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia, Committee of the Whole, on May 13, 2024. Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to testify…

A state-by-state breakdown of federal Covid-relief aid ESSER spending

A report outlining the research and recommendations for building a more diverse teacher workforce

How cuts to education spending lead to weaker student outcomes

Research and best practices on evidence-based strategies to reducing student absenteeism

Since the late 2010s, a wave of state laws has reshaped how schools can teach about race and racism in U.S. history. This legislative push has been coupled with a surge in book bans on a range of…

FutureEd Policy Director Liz Cohen delivered testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia on December 12, 2023, focusing on chronic absenteeism and truancy in the District of Columbia public…

It was one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the nine justices unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that schools segregated by race…

Tracking 2024 legislation on efforts to increase teacher compensation through salary adjustments, bonuses, and other means

A listing of upcoming events at FutureEd and throughout the education sector

Tracking 2024 legislation on efforts to increase teacher compensation through salary adjustments, bonuses, and other means

The importance of relationships to student engagement

For decades, debates have swirled about the best ways to eliminate educational disparities based on race and economic status in the United States. One approach has been through programs like the…

An analysis of how Mississippi’s school districts are spending their federal ARP ESSER funds to address long-standing inequities in school facilities

The Biden administration recently called on colleges and universities to devote at least 15 percent of their federal work-study funds to pay eligible college students to tutor. This could be a win-win...

The movement to introduce new indicators of school performance

Historical milestones in American education

With millions of students struggling academically and the U.S. Department of Education pushing the deadline for spending some federal pandemic-recovery funding into 2026, there’s both a need and an op...

Jackson Elementary School in Louisiana’s East Feliciana Parish District sits on a quiet street just outside the town of Jackson, population 4,130. It’s a 30-mile drive north from Baton Rouge…